Ubuntu – Adobe Flash not working in Firefox

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I am getting following image everytime I try playing videos on Youtube or FB. I have already tried uninstalling flashlugin and then installing again. But, it didnt help. I also tried installing it via Synaptics, but even that didnt help.

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Best Answer

"Terminal Way" for people who's avoid plugins:

Remove gnash and lightspark packages:

sudo apt-get --yes purge browser-plugin-lightspark
sudo apt-get --yes purge lightspark-common
sudo apt-get --yes purge browser-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get --yes purge gnash-common

Then download file flashplayer*_XX_YYYYYY.tar.gz from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer to some tmp directory.

cd /home/USERNAME/tmp

Unpack libflashplayer.so from archive, setting chmod, installing, hardlinking:

tar xvf *flash* libflashplayer.so
sudo chown root:root libflashplayer.so
sudo chmod 0644 libflashplayer.so
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Remove unneeded archive

rm -f *flash*

Although it is only one method to tune your flash.
Fine tuning of lightspark or gnash also can be good choice.

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