I've found Flash to be buggy. I can start watching a video on youtube but eventually the controls at the bottom of the video are replicated all over the place. For some reason I also had a paused youtube video stuck in the top left of the screen which could only be seen on white space. eg, if i opened gedit and moved it up to the corner I could see it.
Darko.
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64bit
OK, I just did a test in one virtual machine I have. It was installed brand new few days ago to test a LVM setup. It did not have flash or anything installed, just the regular updates.
As you can see on the first attachment, I opened www.speedtest.net to show there is no flash installed. The message clearly says you need flash.
After that I downloaded the flash 11 file from adobe (the 32bit since the test machine is ubuntu 12.04 32bit). I extracted the .tar.gz.
I created a folder /home/username/.mozilla/plugins. The plugins folder does not exist in your home folder in .mozilla. I simply created it and copied the libflashplayer.so.
Close and open firefox. Voila, speedtest now works.
Darko.
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64bit
The problem does not appear to there being no libflashplayer.so in the correct directory and of the correct version or previous version. When I try and run flash I get a grey screen. If I right click a box appears saying "movie not loaded" underneath is the version of flash, which changes when I change versions.
I think I may have found a fix - similar to darkod. Worked for me. I had a completely clean install of 12.04 Precise on a oldish machine. All fine except for Flash not working in Firefox at all - no matter what I tried with FlashAid, etc. Finally solved like this:
1. Used Synaptic to completely uninstall flashplugin-installer which had been installed from Ubuntu repositories (and also, in my case, the GTK Flash setting frontend).
2. Checked that there was now no libflashplayer.so in [root] /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
3. Downloaded an archived version of Flash - I chose to use the last of the 10.3 versions.
4. Used Archive Manager tpo extract just the libflashplayer.so file and put it in /home/[myuser]
5. Copied the file to the plugins folder using
6. Started Firfox and tested iPlayer and YouTube - both now worked first time. Rebooted and rechecked - everything fine!sudo cp /home/[myuser]/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Hope that helps
Graham
Greetings,
darkod suggests putting latest libflashplayer.so in .mozilla/firefox/plugins. Didn't work for me -- when I try loading separate pages concurrently with their flash ads, I get many crashes.
RRS
Having just seen graham.s's posting just before the one before this (by me), I also tried his suggestion of putting the libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Not a solution (for me) -- still get multiple crashes on multiple concurrent pages.
By the way, my work-around for this problem is to not try opening more than one page with flash video at a time.
RRS
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