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Mozilla and flash plugins problem.

Asked by sirAndrew

Everytime i open a website with flash objects in it my computer freezes and i can`t use anything. I can`t even move the mouse. The music however still plays. I mention i installed the non-free Adobe plugin as wel as the GNU one. Both get my pc stuck.

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Clare So (cmso) said : 		#1

Which version of the browser and flash plug-in do you use?

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sirAndrew (bogdan-gherasim) said : 		#2

i don`t really know...it`s the mozilla which is installed by default on ubuntu 7.10 and i believe it`s the lastest abobe flash plugin which mozilla installs when you visit a website containing flash.

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Andrew C. (sumguy231) said : 		#3

Try removing it (delete libflashplayer.so from whichever plugins directory it put it in - probably ~/.mozilla/plugins) and then try installing the flashplugin-nonfree package from Synaptic. The downside is that the version in the repositories isn't as new as the one you get direct from Adobe, but maybe your computer won't freeze.

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sirAndrew (bogdan-gherasim) said : 		#4

I managed to do it in another way...i installed the plugin and installed some fix i found on the ubuntu forums. Thanks for the help anyways. Problem Solved.

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Dara Adib (daradib) said : 		#5

For future readers: a fix is available at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397 (perhaps that is what you are referring to).