Flash in Firefox in Ubuntu

[LucyDuke]

So I installed Ubuntu on my psychotic problem-child computer to see if it would be able to understand the wireless card any better. It kind of understands the wireless card, but that's not the problem I want to ask about.

I've been playing around in Ubuntu, and I like it. There's a problem, though, and the problem is in Firefox. It doesn't use Flash properly. I've got the GNU Flash thingy installed, but when I load a page on YouTube or any other site that has Flash videos, it gives me a black box where the video should be.

I did at one point try a different browser that I can't remember the name of, but it had the same problem: dead black box instead of video.

I've also tried using the regular Flash thingy that you download from Adobe(?). Same problem.

Any ideas?

 

[Shadylookin]

install the flash-plugin-nonfree or something like that from the package manager. gnash is piss poor at playing flash, adobe's proprietary one actually plays for the most part.

You'll probably have to restart X after you install it. ctrl + alt + backspace will restart it. Then it should work.

 

[LucyDuke]

That was... too easy.

Way to go Ubuntu, and thanks Shadylookin.

 

[Shadylookin]

hopefully someday adobe puts their linux plugin under an OS license or gash become functional so Ubuntu can come with flash functionality out of the box.

That or Novel needs to perfect moonlight and push MS's silverlight plugin.