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firefox-3.0 package

playing youtube videos in Firefox 3.0

Asked by Peter Kornis

Hi!
I am using Xubuntu 8.04 on an IBM ThinkPad Laptop. I am using the Firefox browser version 3.0. I have already installed Adobe Flash Player three times, but I still can not watch videos on youtube.com. I do not want to download them or anything, just watch them in my browser. When I go to youtube and find a video youtube says: "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player." I have double checked and JavaScript is enabled, and if I click on Get the latest Flash player I can only re-install a previously installed version of Adobe Flash Player. Any help is greatly welcomed!
Thx
Peter

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#1

Maybe this can help - I'm not sure.

When I installed Flashplayer it was difficult to mention the right directoty. In my system. The following directory was the correct one:

/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4

Hope, it helps.
Peter

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please try to clean you mozilla firefox profile

Close all opened Firefox and try to delete your Firefox user setting open a terminal from applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
and restart Firefox.

If you have a lot of bookmarks please export them before move your setting directory, then import them again from saved file into Firefox.
Also take note of your installed Firefox extensions, to reinstall them.

if this works then delete the .mozilla_old directory, from terminal, type:
rm -fr .mozilla_old

hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

If after cleaning your mozilla firefox profile you are still in trouble...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install adobe-flashplugin

Hope this helps

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Peter Kornis (kornispeti) said : 		#4

Thx a lot for your help. With this I could solve the problem at once... ;)