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Flash Player/Javascript stopped working

Asked by Nemsfre

Please help, I have Java installed (7 and 6) and currently without a problem use it for games like minecraft and others.

But when I go to Chrome or Firefox it says I need Javascript installed. It was working just a few minutes ago but here is what happened.

I had to install icetea java thing for firefox to use a website verification code.

That didn't work so I found a webpage telling me to install this flash-aid for firefox. After i let that run I lost the ability to use Javascript and Flash in both Chrome and Firefox.

Where as before it worked for sites like Pandora and even youtube without problem.

For Chrome under about://plugins I dont even see a flash option but adobe website says its just disabled.

I clicked details for break downs and dont see any flash options.

I have tried reinstalling Firefox and Chromium but nothing.

Can't use any websites at all even google music :(

Any help would be greatly appreachated. Thank you in advance

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

Thanks

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Nemsfre (tking887) said : 		#2

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
Linux tklaptop 3.5.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 13 17:48:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii browser-plugin-gnash 0.8.11~git20120629-1ubuntu1 i386 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives
ii gnash 0.8.11~git20120629-1ubuntu1 i386 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
ii gnash-common 0.8.11~git20120629-1ubuntu1 i386 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Common files/libraries

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get --purge remove browser-plugin-gnash gnash gnash-common

Enable the partner repo and install adobe-flashplugin

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Nemsfre (tking887) said : 		#4

I uninstalled Chromium. Ran the following commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

this fixed it for firefox but chromium was still not wokring

then uninstalled chromium and installed Google Chrome

and it works.

Ty for your help