[GRLUG] Flash suddenly not working

[Mike Williams]

Fixed, finally, although I suspect via a kludgy mechanism that's going 
to break again later. Had to make a softlink in 
~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to the actual plugin in 
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin. Why changing ANYTHING in .mozilla has any 
effect on Google Chrome makes no sense at all!

On 02/20/2012 11:16 PM, Mike Williams wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I have the official "flash-plugin-nonfree" package 
> installed, but that should be irrelevant to Chrome (not Chromium) 
> since the flash player is built into it. Chrome doesn't call any 
> external plugins to do Flash. I'm wondering if there is something 
> wrong further down, like some graphics acceleration library that all 
> Flash players access. GLXGears reports 475FPS at the default window 
> size and about 50 at full screen, but I'm not sure if that means much.
>
> On 02/20/2012 06:52 PM, Kyle wrote:
>> Did you install one of the open-source SWF players like Gnash of 
>> swfdec?  I've found they'll generally handle simple tasks (like the 
>> test page) quite well but fail at larger tasks (like Hulu or YouTube).
>>
>> - Kyle
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/20/2012 04:34 PM, Mike Williams wrote:
>>> About a week ago, my Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit) stopped playing Flash 
>>> from anything. I usually use Chrome, which has its own Flash player 
>>> built in, but reinstalling it hasn't helped. Neither has 
>>> reinstalling the Flash plugins, disabling all extensions in Chrome, 
>>> or upgrading to Chrome unstable. Flash won't play in Firefox either. 
>>> Adobe's flash test page plays the little animation, but Hulu and 
>>> Pandora won't play anything.
>>>
>>> Any idea what could be wrong here?
>>>
>>
>>
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