<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Tom, Thanks for that. After your confirmation that it must be my set-up I did some more digging around and learning. I discovered /etc/alternatives and the update-alternatives command and realised that I was using gnash instead of Flash (although I don't remember doing anything in the last 8 days related to this). Anyway I used update-alternatives to point mozilla-flash-plugin to the Flash lib instead of gnash and Voila! It works again. Interesting, it also fixed Chromium (I guess because it is mozilla-based?) For interest's sake I would still like to rule out an update to gnash (assuming I have been using it for more than 8 days) so I need to figure out how to find out a package's version install history. Any hints on how I could find out when a particular package was installed? Thanks again to everyone who responded. Chris On 09/03/2012 12:33, Tom Bamford wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAHkUbiYg4jf67_-u3hiReW48iZtw3AtpO4WAN0UqXnZNRNbsWA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2012 12:11, Chris Schoonbee <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:cmschoonbee@mweb.co.za">cmschoonbee@mweb.co.za</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Can you (or anyone else reading this) confirm that you can indeed access the site on an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10 with Firefox? Then I can know better whether it is an update causing the problem or if it is some problem more specific to my set-up. </div> </blockquote> <div> Hi Chris Works for me. Ubuntu 11.10 amd64, firefox-10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 with Flash 11.1 r102 (installed using flashplugin-installer-11.1.102.62ubuntu0.11.10.2). Not that it helps, but flash is notoriously unpredictable and crappy on Linux, for a long time my browser would freeze if I right clicked on a flash object. I doubt Sterkinekor management would share the sentiment - I always use the self-serve Windows kiosks outside the cinema. Regards Tom </div> </div> -- System Administrator African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Cape Town, South Africa Tel: +27 (0)21 787 9328 Fax: +27 (0)21 787 9321 Jabber: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tom@aims.ac.za" target="_blank">tom@aims.ac.za</a> Web: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aims.ac.za/" target="_blank">www.aims.ac.za</a> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>