Flash video lockups in Firefox, but ok in Opera?

[ginjabunny]

I have this problem on 2 different PCs (AMD and Intel) both running Mint 6 x86, it has only appeared recently, I mainly use Firefox and I noticed on sites like bbc news, youtube and metro.co.uk that quite often when playing videos the Flash plugin appears to crash and I just end up with an empty box where the video should be, I installed Opera and if I go to the same page on Opera the video plays fine!

Anyone else having this problem?

I found a topic about removing "flashplugin-nonfree" and installing "adobe-flashplugin", but when I go to remove the former it says it also wants to remove "mint-meta-main" but I don't know exactly what this is, so now I'm not sure what to do.

Any ideas?

GB

[grimdestripador]

Yes, even on the LM website and Slashdot. I always get flash errors encountered on script.

[Goden]

Arr, I get this too.
I have to refresh a page something like twelve times before I get to actually watch more than 30 seconds of a video.

[merlwiz79]

mint-meta-main is the package that installs everything that mint has installed by default.
It can be removed.
I would reinstall flash.

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apt remove --purge -y flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

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apt install flashplugin-nonfree

[ginjabunny]

Thanks merlwiz79, that did the trick, works fine on both systems now

Something people might find helpful is to install something like NoScript plug-in and block the 3rd party advert sites because I find that the flash adverts hog all the cpu and makes the video playback stutter.