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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Ron,<br>
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Flash support is the biggest bug-bear I have had with Linux over
the last few years. Flash was working for me on Ubuntu-based
distros up to probably 1 or 2 years ago, and following an update
stopped working. It never worked again on that PC over several
Ubuntu-based distros (various versions of Lubuntu and Ubuntu).<br>
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That PC dates back to approx 2002 (Athlon XP2600). Since then
I've installed Ubuntu on a fairly new Dell laptop and Kubuntu on a
brand new self-build i5 desktop and flash has worked fine.<br>
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When I extensively googled the flash problem on the old PC, I
found many other reports of similar problems, but no reliable
solutions, and nothing I tried worked (purging config files,
reinstalling both through the package system and direct from
adobe, etc). Flash worked fine on Windows XP on the same
machine. My belief based on the available evidence is that on
some older hardware Flash on Linux (or at least Ubuntu) is simply
unlikely to ever work. FWIW, the old PC was an Athlon XP2600,
fitted with an NVidia GForce graphics card of some discription.
If I get bored I might try putting an ATI card in and see if that
helps.<br>
<br>
<tt>Jason Irwin wrote:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Adobe no longer support Flash on GNU/Linux unless you are
running Chrome. But I can't see that being an issue unless this
maths package requires the latest and greatest version of
Flash. And even if it is, there is a fairly easy way around it
(see end).
</tt><br>
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On the PC I had trouble with, it definitely failed on Chromium at
the same time as on Firefox. Does Chromium == Chrome in this
instance, or should I specifically try Chrome? I wish I'd known
about your suggested work around earlier - it would have saved me
a lot of rebooting into windows!<br>
<br>
Cheers - Dave<br>
<br>
On 22/01/13 21:04, Ron Wilton wrote:<br>
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on-line maths package that requires Flash to work
properly. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin with
Mozilla Firefox 18.0, the one that is downloaded with
Pangolin.<br>
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Shockwave Flash is installed but this does not work.
Can anyone advise my on what I can do to get this site
working, please?<br>
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Thanks<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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