Flash Player Update needed - Flash-Aid not working

**Odense** · November 27th, 2011

Yesterday when I entered a site that worked OK previously I got this message:

"We have detected that you do not have the newest version of Flash Player installed. Therefore, your connection has been switched to the Java connection mode. For a better experience, please click here to upgrade to the latest Flash Player for free. View current connection mode."

After logging in to these pages I decided that the Flash-Aid Add-On to my firefox was the way to go. So I installed that and used it with the following results:

"************************************************* **************************
*****************PLEASE WAIT...DON'T CLOSE THIS TERMINAL!******************
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*************************Starting removal commands*************************
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[sudo] password for mnj:
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*************************Starting update commands**************************
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*************************Starting install commands*************************
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--2011-11-27 00:09:08-- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._112211.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 2.21.67.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|2.21.67.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6887485 (6.6M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `flashplayer11-2_p2_install_lin_32_112211.tar.gz'

100%[======================================>] 6,887,485 1.04M/s in 6.4s

2011-11-27 00:09:25 (1.03 MB/s) - `flashplayer11-2_p2_install_lin_32_112211.tar.gz' saved [6887485/6887485]

libflashplayer.so
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*************************Starting tweaking commands************************
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OverrideGPUValidation=true
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******FINISHED! You can close this terminal and restart Firefox now.*******
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So I restarted the firefox and tried the site again - but still with this result:

"We have detected that you do not have the newest version of Flash Player installed. Therefore, your connection has been switched to the Java connection mode. For a better experience, please click here to upgrade to the latest Flash Player for free. View current connection mode."

So how DO I get my the flsh player upated and how do I get rid of the Flash-Aid Add-On that does not work for me ?

**ajgreeny** · November 27th, 2011

See [ubuntu] ubuntu 10.10, firefox 8 64bit - flash not working

There have been problems with flash-aid just recently. Or perhaps generally with flash, I'm not sure, but the stable version (Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102) works OK for me; the beta not at all.