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pmatos
September 28th, 2010, 10:31 PM
Hi,

I am using Chrome in ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04, 64 bit:

Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 (Official Build 59945)
WebKit 534.3
V8 2.2.24.24
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3
Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

However, flash is not working as expected. I get sound but not image. Instead I have a gray box.
Everything seems ok. From about:plugins:


Shockwave Flash
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85
Version:
Priority: 1
Location: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player
.spl


Funny thing is that I have exactly the same config (or so I think) on a laptop and it works there. hehehe

Anyone with the same problem that managed to sort it out?

Cheers,

PMatos
hhh
September 29th, 2010, 03:36 AM
Does it work in Firefox? Are you using anything fancy like the RGBA enabled Murrine themes?
pmatos
September 29th, 2010, 09:43 AM
Does it work in Firefox? Are you using anything fancy like the RGBA enabled Murrine themes?

Yes, it works on Firefox... and no, no fancy themes... :(
hhh
September 29th, 2010, 01:07 PM
Do you have the 64 bit Flash plugin? See if one of these links helps...
http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2009/12/64bit-chrome-flash/
http://sillydog.org/forum/install-flash-in-64-bit-ubuntu-it-works-t15581.php
http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/06/flash-issues-solutions.html
pmatos
October 11th, 2010, 03:04 PM
Do you have the 64 bit Flash plugin? See if one of these links helps...
http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2009/12/64bit-chrome-flash/
http://sillydog.org/forum/install-flash-in-64-bit-ubuntu-it-works-t15581.php
http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/06/flash-issues-solutions.html

Thanks for the references. Since nothing helped I just gave up and went back to Firefox.
elf128
December 6th, 2010, 01:25 AM
Thanks for the references. Since nothing helped I just gave up and went back to Firefox.


Hi, may be it's too late, but...
Take a look on this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1564848&page=2
cgroza
December 6th, 2010, 01:26 AM
Good, Firefox is the right way! Chrome is closed source. Too bad. :popcorn::popcorn: