Flash installed but not working

**Diskdoc** · December 9th, 2012

I have a fairly fresh 12.04 install on a 32-bit system. "flashplugin-installer" works fine, I watch the network traffic as it downloads Flash, and after restarting Firefox I can see it among the plugins listed.

But it doesn´t work. play.spotify.com tells me to install Flash and Adobes own Flash-test-page doesn't seem to work properly.

I'll try to make due with Lightspark or Chrome but I figured someone else MUST have run into this? I saw some cryptic remarks somewhere about the Java virtual machine depending on some processor instruction that my athlonxp doesn't have. Does Flash use Java??

Anyone else with the same problem?

**Diskdoc** · December 9th, 2012

I'm getting closer to this..more hints of the problem being SSE2 instruction is required by the Flash binary.

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?...bug&id=3154276

http://community.plus.net/forum/inde...opic=105218.32

If this is the case, I see it as a bug that should be easily corrected in Ubuntu:

- if no SSE2 support the flashplugin-installer should throw in Lightspark instead. Better than nothing.