Okay... I really don't get it. I've been having some issues with flashplayer and Firefox for a couple weeks now and I'll be damned if I understand why what I just did fixed the problem.
In particular I was having issues with SWF files loading on webpages. The most irritating one being Pandora.com which is my favorite online radio. It works just fine on my laptop, but my Desktop computer would always fail to load the flash video and it would freeze up forcing me to exit Firefox.
So... I decided to just uninstall anything and everything having to do with flash or Firefox through the synaptic. Well, I uninstalled everything and I expected my firefox browser to disappear from the applications menu. Long story short -- it didn't. It's still there, and I don't understand why in God's name the flash player decided to start working again. I'm glad, but at the same time extremely confused!