Problems with Adobe Flash

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#1

I recently am having problems with Adobe Flash. Previously, it worked fine but now it is no longer working. I have made one change in that I installed the Better Privacy add on to Firefox, but it is unlikely that it is the cause of the problem because when I disabled it to see if it was causing the problem, the problem persisted. Some details on the problem.

  1. I am getting the message “an error occurred, try again later” when I try to use Adobe Flash to view a video (this happens in YouTube but all websites are affected also) . This happens in all the websites I visit.

  2. My computer is a Dell Studio XPS, I7 processor, 8 GByte of RAM. Age or hardware issues are not the problem as it worked properly until just recently.

  3. Firefox is version 3.6.10 and at the bottom of the Firefox about window it says…

    “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 SUSE/3.6.10-0.3.1 Firefox/3.6.10”

  4. I am using the “No Script”, “Better Privacy”, “Flash Block” and “AdBlock” add ons. I disabled them all it it makes no difference.

  5. The OS is OpenSuse 11.2 - 84 bit version. I am using KDE 4.3.5.

#2

What about konqueror?

#3

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:36:04 +0000, bstanle wrote:

> I recently am having problems with Adobe Flash. Previously, it worked
> fine but now it is no longer working. I have made one change in that I
> installed the Better Privacy add on to Firefox, but it is unlikely that
> it is the cause of the problem because when I disabled it to see if it
> was causing the problem, the problem persisted. Some details on the
> problem.

Interesting, I also ran into this problem on my x86_64 release of 11.2 -
I thought it was just a fluke. Are you using the 32-bit plugin with the
nspluginwrapper or the older 64-bit plugin?

Jim

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#4

you could try moving your .mozilla directory to .mozilla-old and see if it works with default FF config:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-old

Then see if flash works.

To revert back:


rm -r ~/.mozilla
mv ~/.mozilla-old ~/.mozilla
#5

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:06:02 +0000, ah7013 wrote:

> you could try moving your .mozilla directory to .mozilla-old and see if
> it works with default FF config:

I’ll give that a try myself, but I wanted to note that it works OK in
Chrome here (same plugin) so it must be something FF or FF-update related.

Jim

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#6

" What about konqueror? "

I triied Konqueror (by the way I dislike Konquueror) and I got nothing at all. I guess this indicates that thiis is a probllemm in Adobe Flash. It has to be a recent change because it was working until recently.

#7

From a terminal do this and report result

rpm -qi flash-player

Look in Yast at my installed packages
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/flash.png

#8

I think that I am not using nspluginwrapper. I say this because I did nothing special to install it. Upon looking at the tools/Add ons/plugggns of Firefox, I find the following…

Shockwave Fllash 10.1.r85

and

ShockWave Fllash
Shockwave Flash 9.0r99. Gnash 0.8.5 the GNU SWF Player Etc…

Since I see two entriies for Shockwave Flash, I wonder if this is the problem?

I’m going to disable the older one and see what happpens. As for your question about the 32 vs 64 bit version, I don’t knoow. I am probably using the version that comes with the OpenSuse insstall.

#9

Look at the image I posted
All you need is that as shown

nspluginwrapper is strictly for _64bit but it seems to be added to 32 bit now too for some strange reason. Just leave it if it’s there.

#10

On 2010-09-29 21:36, caf4926 wrote:

> nspluginwrapper is strictly for _64bit but it seems to be added to 32
> bit now too for some strange reason. Just leave it if it’s there.

If flash or acrobat plugin crashes, you can kill the wrapper without killing the browser :wink:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)