Adobe flash not working properly

[Angelic_fruitcake]

Hi,

Flash player doesn't seem to work for sites other than youtube. (eg. I get a 'please update flash' message on Myspace) I tried using Flash-aid as recommended on a sticky, but this hasn't worked. (I reloaded firefox and rebooted the laptop.) I checked in package manager and it seems I have the most recent one installed.

I'm using 8.04 Hardy, and I'm not very good with computers (as you may have guessed) so please be gentle with me.

If you have any suggestions, thanks in advance!

Clare

[adwhitenc]

I believe your problem is that your old system doesn't support newer flash programs. (Hardy is from April 2008) I would suggest upgrading your system to 9.10 or 10.4. I think that will solve your problems.

[Angelic_fruitcake]

I thought that might be a possibility, but I was hoping it wasn't! Laptop = elderly.

Thank you though. I'll upgrade to a long term support option, because, as you can tell I don't like upgrading (technophobe!)

Cheers,

Clare

[Old_Man_Unix]

Laptop = elderly.

Consider switching to Lubuntu 10.10. It is a Ubuntu derivative and was actually developed to be used on "elderly" hardware.

I am currently using it on what I consider an elderly system, and it is working fine.

It uses the same repositories as Ubuntu and there is a "lubuntu-restricted-extras" package to give you Flash and a lot of other good stuff.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Get%20Lubuntu

[Angelic_fruitcake]

Haha - wow! That is made of awesome Thanks for that. What a splendid idea. Should be called Oldbuntu or something though

I think I'll just have to admit that I need a new laptop though - the number of times it has crashed this week because it didn't like me opening too many tabs...

Cheers all!

C