You may recall I said yesterday: "I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two plug-ins one after another, neither of which helped at all One of them can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox > Tools > Add-ons, namely Gnash 0.8.4, but the other one seems to have vanished into the Firefox configuration without possibility of disabling or uninstalling, namely SWFdec 0.8.0, and I would like to get rid of both of them and try again, since right now any attempt to run embedded videos just hangs the browser, so that I have to use a forced close on it. I have not tried to alter or remove the video player utilities that came with the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD, which is otherwise running perfectly. So, any advice on how to roll back these (or all) add-ons and plug-ins I myself have installed today would be great. Thanks."
I found the web pages on SWFdec, and in fact if I had been sensible enough to have read them first, I would never have installed the thing, but I had grown to assume that if something featured on the Firefox add-ons pages, without heavy warnings pasted all over it, it would be safe: http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage Specifically, they say there: "Swfdec is the library for decoding and rendering Flash animations. It is still in heavy development. The intended audience are developers or people using it for pretested Flash animations (think embedded here). If you use it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be surprised if it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make sure to file a bug immediately." On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:02 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > On 13/03/2009 12:54, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally. > > Thank you, Michael Fletcher! > > > > > > > That's good. So everything is working out of the box? > > Rob > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
