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System Prefernces Help (Cant Find it) needed for Flash Player

Asked by jim Z on 2013-04-08

I am trying to turn off Hardware Acceleration for adobe flash player. On adobes site for ubuntu it says to go to system settings>preferences>adobe flash. I cannot find preferences anywhere. Im doing this because when I watch a youtube video the video appears quite small when full screen is selected.

Thanks,

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Last query:: 2013-04-08

Last reply:: 2013-04-09

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2013-04-08 by jim Z

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said on 2013-04-08:

Hi ,
try to install flash-player and adobe-flash-properties-gtk package.

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and copy-paste from here the following commands (one by one)

sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install adobe-flash-properties-gtk

After the installation , search for adobe or flash and you will find the flash-player properties.

The most likely problem here is that you don't have the flash player installed properly and the HTML5 is enabled by default in YouTube.

Regards
NikTh

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jim Z (jim-zahora1) said on 2013-04-08:

jim@Killer:~$ sudo apt-get install -reinstall flashplugin-installer
[sudo] password for jim:
E: Command line option 'r' [from -reinstall] is not known.

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jim Z (jim-zahora1) said on 2013-04-08:

just seen the error in my syntax sorry

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jim Z (jim-zahora1) said on 2013-04-08:

however i do get the following for the gtk

jim@Killer:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flash-properties-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package adobe-flash-properties-gtk
jim@Killer:~$