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abraxas334
March 7th, 2011, 11:23 AM
Hi,
I have looked around but people seem to be having trouble with flash in firefox but not chrome. I experience the opposite. I can't watch any youtube videos using chrome. Firefox will work for a while but eventually crash. All this happened after a recent upgrade. I was using a better version of chrome but even reverting to a stable one no difference. I have tried both adobe flash plugin as well as the one chrome comes with. I am a bit lost now any ideas how to fix this?

Shockwave Flash (2 files)
Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
Version:
Priority: 0
Location: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
(Disabled) Enable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player
.spl
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
Version:
Priority: 1
Location: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player
.spl

what I use in chrome.
My chrome version installed: 9.0.597.107 what ever that means.
firefox version: 3.6.14
josephmills
March 7th, 2011, 11:34 AM
have you tryed flash aid?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/
abraxas334
March 7th, 2011, 11:46 AM
That won't work for chrome! My flash in firefox is working fine! But chrome is my default browser...
abraxas334
March 7th, 2011, 03:41 PM
Here is the crash report I get every time:
runeh76
March 7th, 2011, 03:54 PM
Hi

Goto package manager and search flash
Remove everything flash what is installed, close it and install from terminal:


sudo apt-get install gsfonts gsfonts-x11 flashplugin-nonfree
BrandonAElam
March 7th, 2011, 07:21 PM
I was having similar issues. I solved them by clearing out all my cookies, then doing this:

Click that wrench on the right.
Then Preferences->Under The Hood->Content Settings->Exceptions
Click Add... and type in www.youtube.com and select block.

Definitely worked for me. Hope it works for you too.
ddumanis
March 10th, 2011, 01:07 AM
Thanks Brandon! Worked great for me.

This thread should probably be marked SOLVED now... :D