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Flash problem Ubuntu 7.10(youtube)

Asked by jaska94

I have Ubuntu 7.10(32bit) and Firefox 2.0.0.11.
Installed flash and gnash plugin.
Youtube videos being watched right now section has blue boxes and when trying to watch videos firefox crashes. Dont know what to install or uninstall anymore. Help please!

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Shockwave Flash
 File name: libgnashplugin.so
    Shockwave Flash 8.0 r99. Gnash 0.8.1, the GNU Flash Player. Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash. Compatible Shockwave Flash 8.0 r99.

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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) said : 		#1

You probably have only gnash installed. Gnash is a great software, but it is still under development. Bugs are common. It is a free alternative to the proprietary version.

Uninstall gnash and install the flashplugin-nonfree package. Multiverse repository must be enabled. You can do it on the Software Channels found under the System menu.

This should solve your problem.

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Best Dara Adib (daradib) said : 		#2

Please also see Bug 173890 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397

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jaska94 (jaska94) said : 		#3

Thank that solved my problem!
I uninstalled Gnash. And uninstalled the Flash non-free plugin, because that was my problem and downloaded patched one from internet. Also allowed youtube popups and now fullscreen is working too :)

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Victor Torres (vicmatp) said : 		#4

Wow, thank you kernel, it's been several days that I was trying to solve this problem, and you were the only one that had the right answer. Having the gnash gave me only a blank frame where there must have been a video on youtube. In other web pages, it worked very well the gnash, but I am a fan of youtube, so I had to uninstall it. Thanx :-)