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alexjpowell
March 3rd, 2011, 03:35 PM
Flash has stopped working. Whenever I try to view a flash app (like youtube) I get a message saying that the Adobe flash plugin has crashed. Reloading / rebooting etc does not help.

Running Firefox 3.6.14, Ubuntu 10.10 32bit
maqtanim
March 3rd, 2011, 03:39 PM
Well... in my case, When I see flash crash report, I just restart the Firefox and every things work fine.
FredSambo
March 3rd, 2011, 03:40 PM
I have the same issue, it just started today and is limited to youtube.
alexjpowell
March 3rd, 2011, 03:41 PM
Just installed Chromium browser, same issue there also
FredSambo
March 3rd, 2011, 03:53 PM
it looks like it has something to do with the new youtube layout. hulu works fine.
alexjpowell
March 3rd, 2011, 03:57 PM
it looks like it has something to do with the new youtube layout. hulu works fine.

Agreed, just tried using flash in other places and it's just youtube that isn't working. Anyone got a fix?
A quick fix is to swap watch?v= with embed/ in the URL but it would be preferred if I got it working normally
FredSambo
March 3rd, 2011, 04:14 PM
Well that fix proves it is the new layout. I guess this is on youtube's end? I just posted an error report with youtube.
alexjpowell
March 4th, 2011, 12:02 PM
Anyone got a fix yet?
matteosistisette
March 4th, 2011, 02:51 PM
Well that fix proves it is the new layout. I guess this is on youtube's end? I just posted an error report with youtube.

Even if there is an issue on youtube's end, which is likely, if the flash player plugin crashes the flash player plugin has a bug, no matter how buggy the content that is triggering the crash.
Paddy Landau
March 4th, 2011, 02:59 PM
This may be related to the recent updates. See
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1698956