No Forum videos on Firefox since Update Pack 6 [Solved]

[rdonnelly]

For some reason video on forums display as a black box, I can watch videos from Youtube, but not the ones uploaded to forums? They work fine from Chrome?

http://sprinter-source.com/forum/showpo ... ostcount=1

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[rdonnelly]

Just realized that I can not view thumbnails of attached forum images, I can see the thumbnails, but I can not click on, and enlarge them?

[rdonnelly]

I gave up on FF, always seems to have something broke, so I am going to stick with Chrome.

[zerozero]

this might be a long shot in the dark but what flashplugin version are you using?
here (with Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202) i can see the link above in FF17

[rdonnelly]

Yeah, I got 11.0 d1

Update is available in tar, yum and RPM? No Deb.

I used to be able to install RPM but no longer PM shows I have RPM and YUM installed?

[zerozero]

if you stick with chrome you'll get the newest flash (11.5.31.5 at the time of writing)
as you can see http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ 11.2 will be the last version (outside chrome) to support linux.

you can update to the last supported version (or close 11,2,202,251) installing flashplugin-nonfree from synaptic (this package will update flash to the latest supported version in linux, basically at the moment only bug fixes)

going back to the beginning prob. chrome is the easiest option

[rdonnelly]

Synaptic shows this:

flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.1)

[zerozero]

flashplugin-nonfree is an installer (is not the plashplugin itself, it will d/l from adobe and install the latest (?)/the latest available version)

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apt show flashplugin-nonfree
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:3.1
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/web
Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 180 k
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2,
         libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>=
         2.14), libnspr4, libnss3, libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6,
         libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils
Suggests: iceweasel, konqueror-nsplugins, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-dejavu,
          ttf-xfree86-nonfree, hal
Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (< 6),
           flashplugin (< 6), libflash-mozplugin, libflash-mozplugin, xfs (<
           1:1.0.1-5), xfs (< 1:1.0.1-5), flashplugin-nonfree
Replaces: flashplugin (< 6), flashplugin (< 6)
Description: Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
 This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe.  It is a
 Netscape/Mozilla type plugin.  Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla can use
 the Flash Player.  This package currently supports the following browsers:
 Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape.  Also Galeon and
 Epiphany can use the Flash Player.  Konqueror can also use the Flash Player if
 konqueror-nsplugins is installed.
 
 WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes the Adobe Flash Player to be
 downloaded from www.adobe.com. The End User License Agreement of the Adobe
 Flash Player is available at www.adobe.com.
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer


[rdonnelly]

[quote="zerozero"]flashplugin-nonfree is an installer (is not the plashplugin itself, it will d/l from adobe and install the latest (?)/the latest available version)

It does not seem to doing the DL and install? Do I need to interact with it some how to make it do this?

[zerozero]

give us the output of

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apt install flashplugin-nonfree

[rdonnelly]

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$ apt install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 acroread:i386 : Depends: acroread-debian-files:i386 (>= 9.4.6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


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$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgmp10:i386 libmpc2:i386 libmpfr4:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  acroread-debian-files:i386
Recommended packages:
  mime-support:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acroread-debian-files:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/15.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 101 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 278285 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking acroread-debian-files (from .../acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/acroread', which is also in package adobereader-enu 9.5.1
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


[zerozero]

try this

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sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb

then
apt update && apt dist-upgrade
if in the end of those 2 commands the output is clean, you can try again

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apt install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

close FF, open it again and see in about:plugins the flash version you have now

[rdonnelly]

That did the trick ZeroZero, thanks for the help. How ever I may still make Chrome my primary browser.

[zerozero]

How ever I may still make Chrome my primary browser.

in the long run this is prob. the best option
[ i don't want to believe that tho ]

[rdonnelly]

How ever I may still make Chrome my primary browser.

in the long run this is prob. the best option
[ i don't want to believe that tho ]

I think Google does do better Linux support, where Mozilla is better with windoze, even my Thunderbird Lightning calender has a bug where the alarms wont fire. This was fixed a long time ago in the windoze version, but still not addressed in Linux. My Thunderbird work around is refresh the calender every 15 minutes.

FF has had problems more then once with updates, Chrome never seems to have problems so far?

[rdonnelly]

I checked my system monitor process list, now Tbird is on top and Chrome is below. FF use to be on tip with alot of resources being used.