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On 08/10/2010 02:00 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTi=JjE1jGYEmispN_jP3mgTaHXrcwdbONFkLDy8j@mail.gmail.com"
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<div class="gmail_quote">Chromium is displaying this on the
Washington Post website:
<div><i>"The following plug-in has crashed:
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so"</i></div>
<div>(it won't play video)</div>
<div>And no, sites like Veoh and YouTube do NOT display similar
behavior.</div>
<div>When I go to Synaptic Package Manager, I am unable to find
libflashplayer.so</div>
<div>Chromium is 5.0.375.99 (51029)</div>
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</div>
<div>But at least Chromium will execute; Firefox won't even do
that much.</div>
<div>Synaptic Package Manager says that FF=3.6.8</div>
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Hi Nathan,<br>
<br>
The package that handles flash in Linux is "flashplugin-installer".
Said package is a script that a) downloads the latest flash from
Adobe's website, and puts it in a sensible place where most browsers
can find it, and b) transparently handles installing the 32 bit
version of flash in a 64 bit OS (64 bit flash for Linux is no longer
supported by Adobe). <br>
<br>
I wouldn't start troubleshooting with the package manager, however.
Some things to do:<br>
<br>
1) Clear Flash's cache by visiting this page:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html">http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html</a><br>
<br>
(It would be really nice if Adobe would provide a way of getting to
this via a menu; for now, the above link is the "official" way of
emptying the data that Flash stores on your computer.)<br>
<br>
2) Try running Firefox from the command line by opening a terminal,
typing "firefox", and hitting Enter. Watch the terminal output, as
it may give you hints as to why Firefox is crashing. <br>
<br>
~ PeteVG<br>
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