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Perplexed with Firefox 3.5.8 and Flashplayer in Ubuntu 9.10

Asked by JAS77

I am using Ubuntu 9.10, I have flash installed, JavaScript enabled but yet the screen when playing on Dark orbit still flickers in and out sometime more severe than others I'm using version 3.5.8 on Firefox. Also On the back screen of the game it constantly has the play button show in the flash portions as well both having to be refreshed on a constant basis when moving back and forth, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf; uname -a

Cheers

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JAS77 (jasmith77) said : 		#2

jeff@jeff-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf; uname -a
ii flashblock 1.3.14~a2+snapshot20090627-0ubuntu1 mozilla extension that replaces flash elemen
ii flashplugin-installer 10.0.45.2ubuntu0.9.10.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.45.2ubuntu0.9.10.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (transit
Linux jeff-laptop 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:02:26 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jeff@jeff-laptop:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Thats way too many plugins dude, lets get you cleaned up:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

You are using a 64bit Ubuntu so you can use the 64bit flash plugin

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins; cd ~/.mozilla/plugins; wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; tar zxvf ./libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; rm ./libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Run all that as ONE command and you will have 64bit flash good to go in firefox, if you want to use it in Chrome/Chromium, after the install of the browser run:

sudo cp ~/.mozilla/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/

and it will work there too.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#9

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