Flash crashing constantly in Firefox, Flashaid isn't fixing it.

[brntoki]

I'm a Flashaid believer and it usually solves all Flash related headaches, but not this time. Ubuntu 11.04 64bit. I notice it with Youtube. I had been/am (I don't know) using the html5 deal in Youtube, but that isn't solving the issue. I'm wondering if it's creating it.

Any ideas what I might look for to fix this very annoying problem???

Thanks.

[brntoki]

Bump.

[coldraven]

I've been having some flash problems in the last few days.
I always use Flashaid but on the BBC news site some videos will not play.
They work for about 10 secs then stop although the progress bar continues as normal.
Using Flashaid I've tried installing the 32 or 64 bit versions to no effect.
It seems to be a Flash or BBC problem and is getting better, most videos work now.

[compiz addict]

Somebody correct my if I'm wrong, but I believe YouTube's HTML5 player doesn't use any flash whatsoever, so if would be completely unrelated to flash and would explain why Flashaid wont solve the problem. If nobody can give you a better solution, you should consider using Google Chrome/Chromium and see if that works.

[brntoki]

Giving this a shot. Don't know why I haven't already. Not enough caffeine, I suppose. But, my reason for saying Flash is crashing is because, well, Flash is crashing, and telling me that it's doing it with the little Lego thingy asking me if I want to report it.

Somebody correct my if I'm wrong, but I believe YouTube's HTML5 player doesn't use any flash whatsoever, so if would be completely unrelated to flash and would explain why Flashaid wont solve the problem. If nobody can give you a better solution, you should consider using Google Chrome/Chromium and see if that works.

[brntoki]

No dice. Same problem.

[brntoki]

Bump again.

[lovinglinux]

Please generate a report through Flash-Aid Help menu and post here.

BTW, I need to update Flash-Aid to deal with the flashplugin-downloader package in Oneiric. I will try to do this tomorrow.

[brntoki]

Here you go. Thanks for any help you can give.

Ubuntu Architecture

Linux brent-P35-DS3L 2.6.38-12-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 28 14:27:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu Version

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"

Firefox Packages

firefox						install
firefox-globalmenu				install
firefox-gnome-support				install
firefox-locale-en				install
firefox-locale-ja				install

Firefox binaries

/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `../lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.sh'
/usr/local/bin/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/local/bin/firefox' (No such file or directory)
/opt/firefox/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/opt/firefox/firefox' (No such file or directory)

Firefox divertion

/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu' (No such file or directory)

Sources

caffeine-developers-ppa-natty.list
caffeine-developers-ppa-natty.list.save
medibuntu.list
medibuntu.list.save
tualatrix-ppa-natty.list
tualatrix-ppa-natty.list.save
ubuntu-wine-ppa-natty.list
ubuntu-wine-ppa-natty.list.save

Flash packages

Plugin locations

/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Flash symlinks


/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so' (No such file or directory)
/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin: ERROR: cannot open `/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/lightspark/lightspark.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/lightspark/lightspark.so' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so' (No such file or directory)
/usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so' (No such file or directory)
/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: ERROR: cannot open `/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so' (No such file or directory)
/var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: ERROR: cannot open `/var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so' (No such file or directory)

pluginreg.dat

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/opt/google/picasa/3.0/lib/npPicasa3.so:$
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[INVALID]

[lovinglinux]

Here you go. Thanks for any help you can give.

I see nothing wrong in your report. I suppose the problem is with the flash version. I have seen some bad comments about the latest version.

If you have a nVidia card, disable HWVideo decode in Flash-Aid tweaking options and install flash again trough it. If not, try to disable GPU override.