No flash on youtube (11.2)

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#1

Hi

Few days ago I have noticed that videos on youtube doesn’t work, information about old version of flash player and disabled javascript appear :slight_smile:
But, flash player works on any other site :
I have openSUSE 11.2 64

#2

There was a Flash update recently to version 10.0.42.34, looks like you don’t have that one installed yet.
The new 64-bit version is avaiable here:
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

#3

This is available in the updates repo. It might be much easier to do an update with zypper/Yast.

#4

The “flash-player” package from the repositories only has the 32-bit flash plugin.

#5

And that does fine on 64-bit systems. The OP hasn’t indicated that he is using 64-bit Flash, and likely has the package from the non-oss repo.

#6

Why bother using old 32-bit junk when you can use 64-bit instead?

Switching to 64-bit is really easy:

  • close Firefox, then right-click on the desktop, Run > kdesu dolphin
  • go to /usr/lib/browser-plugins and rename libflashplayer.so
  • in your home directory: “View > Show hidden files”, enter .mozilla directory
  • there, create a new directory named plugins and enter it
  • copy the libflashplayer.so there which you extracted from the file downloaded from the Adobe labs site:
    Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux
#7

Main problem with that is that the burden is on you to follow security updates. With the official supported package, this is pretty much automated. I haven’t noticed any degradation or performance issues with the 32bit, but I might if I saw them side-by-side.

#8

Any benefit on using 64 bit flash instead of 32 ?

#9

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:56:01 GMT, Tokugawa-Ieyasu <Tokugawa-Ieyasu@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>chief_sealth;2091742 Wrote:
>> And that does fine on 64-bit systems. The OP hasn’t indicated that he is
>> using 64-bit Flash, and likely has the package from the non-oss repo.
>Why bother using old 32-bit junk when you can use 64-bit instead?
>
>Switching to 64-bit is really easy:
>
>- close Firefox, then right-click on the desktop, Run > kdesu dolphin
>- go to /usr/lib/browser-plugins and rename libflashplayer.so
>- in your home directory: “View > Show hidden files”, enter .mozilla
> directory
>- there, create a new directory named plugins and enter it
>- copy the libflashplayer.so there which you extracted from the file
> downloaded from the Adobe labs site:
> ‘Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux’
> (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html)

Two more words: Arrogant prunt.