I reported similar problems on bug report 933509. There does seem to be a conflict between the "GNU Gnash free GPL'd SWF player" and the Adobe Flash player; both seem to want to be the only Flash player on the PC.
I had removed, then reinstalled the Adobe player, and kept getting a message saying my Flash was out-of-date. Today, I removed both the Adobe and the GNU Gnash player, and then just reinstalled the Adobe Flash player. Now, Tools > Addons > "Check to see if your plugins are up to date" reports that my Flash player IS up to date. I can play Youtube OK. The videos on http://tv.yahoo.com/primetime/ no longer report that Flash is not present on the PC, but it plays in erratic 2-5 second snippets skipping through the various videos available there. Likewise on the ABC.com site. The Adobe flash player installed alone seems to work better than the Gnu Gnash SWF player installed alone. Neither works as well as Adobe Flash on In****** Ex****** on Wi***** XP, though. . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: From https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ clicked the update button. Tried to follow the update instructions. Wasn't able to update. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.56-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Aug 20 13:07:29 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-branding 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
