Flash kinda half works

I dunno if my flash is just plain moody or what, but it depends what site I’m on

Examples:

Youtube and Google Video, I can play everything

BBC and Feedzilla, can’t play anything, tells I have the wrong version of flash (some sites say shockwave flash)

I had a look in Yast’s Software Management Module what versions were showing as available thinking I would try switching to one from another repository and all the versions that were showing were i586, the machine (and kernel) are x86_64. Not something I’ve needed to pay much attention to as the last time I had flash issues were with OS 10.3, but I thought there were 64-bit versions of flash?

Just wondering if that’s what causing the issue

Yes there is an old testing version of flash-64bit from adobe.com. Works for me. As 64bit should be more secure I hope I am magically saved from the bad guys.

The 32 bit version should work and it does for me
But so does the 64 bit version
Fix your flash in 11.4 _64 with flash square

Cheers caf4926 you’re a diamond, and I must be a bit thick cos when I opened your link I realised I’d used it before lol, was a good while back though

Working much better in firefox and chrome now, to akregator’s still complaining it ‘can’t play shockwave file’

Discovered in Yast that gnash had gotten in there somehow and wondered if maybe that was part of the problem, no idea what pulled gnash in tho, nothing came up as depending on it when I deleted it and I certainly didn’t install it myself unless it came in when I installed lxde the other day

gnash had gotten in there
This would be the problem. I have seen quite few have this happen recently. It’s strange and puzzling.

Have to agree mate, what caused it to install when I don’t appear to have anything that depends on it I have no idea

Set it to never install in yast’s software manager now so hopefully that should be the end of that

I don’t know what dragged it in. But if you marked it Taboo it should be OK.