Scott Jones wrote: > I tried what you said, and there's no change. I have used your > suggestion in the past to fix firefox issues, but what's weird is, I > went to linuxjournal.com and the tech tip video didn't display, no
The Linux Journal tech tip videos are flash-based. An easy way to tell is by right-clicking the applet; flash applets usually display "About Adobe Flash Player" at the bottom of the context menu. Flash videos do not use Java in any way. I suspect your issue has nothing to do with Java. My installation is similar to yours. I have 64 bit Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox and the "flashplugin-installer" package provided by Ubuntu. If you visit the URL "about:plugins" in Firefox, do you see "Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42" among the list of plugins? I have noticed that in Ubuntu 9.10, Flash often dies in the middle of a browsing session. Once it dies, Firefox shows a simple gray box where flash applets should be. The way I fix it is I quit Firefox and reopen only the page I wanted to see. Maybe I'll report it as a bug one of these days. I think Gnash is the best solution to problems like this, though. Has anyone here tried Gnash recently? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
