firefox 11.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 lost capability to display flash videos during update manager
I have Ubuntu versions 10.10 and 11.10 in partitions on an 80 GB internal hard drive. On initial installations (at widely different times, of course) they both played firefox news videos. Finally, after many updates, 10.10 quit...the video window opened but no rotating circle and no error message...that didn't bother me much because I could go to 11.10 if I really wanted to see that video. A couple of days ago after much nagging from 11.10, I finally relented and let it update... and now it behaves exactly like 10.10. The update contained something like 40 items and I have no idea what caused what. I saved all the *.log files that modified on that day, but there's a slew of them and I don't know which ones might give useful info. If there is a way out other than reinstalling 11.10 without updates, I'd appreciate any help.
2004 Elite PC purchased from Tempe, AZ.
bill@happy1:/sbin$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
bill@happy1:/sbin$ uname -r
3.0.0-17-generic
I have uninstalled flashplugin and firefox, then reinstalled them and rebooted...no change resulted.
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