<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hello Andy and James<br><br><br>Andy<br><br>I get the following from your suggestions:<br><br>


        
        
        
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ron@ron-desktop:~$ cat/proc/$(pgrep
firefox)/cmdline
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm">bash: cat/proc/1945/cmdline: No such
file or directory
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ron@ron-desktop:~$ cat /proc/$(pgrep
firefox)/maps  |grep flash
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ron@ron-desktop:~$ uname -i
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<h2 class="western">Shockwave Flash</h2>
<dl><dd>File: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so</dd><dd>
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        Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202</dd></dl>
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                                <div>Description</div>
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                                <div>Suffixes</div>
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                                <div>application/futuresplash</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm">ron@ron-desktop:~$ dpkg
--get-selections |grep flash
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<br>James<br><br>Also, I have a 32-bit AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU.<br><br>Have also tried the 'Ubuntu restricted extras' from the Ubuntu Software Centre, with no joy.<br><br>Seem to be running out of ideas, but I've still yet to try the WINE idea, though.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Ron<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div>  <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1">  <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Andy White <andy@milky.org.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Ron Wilton <ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 24 January 2013, 23:43<br> <b><span
 style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nottingham] Firefox problem<br> </font> </div> <br>Hi All,<br><br>[snip]<br>> You didn't state if you were using 32 or 64bit and I forgot to ask (sorry).<br>> Is you CPU AMD and are you running 32bit?  If so, you might be out<br>> of luck as I've seen people state that Flash does not run on some<br>> 32bit AMD systems.<br>[snip]<br><br>file `cat /proc/$(pgrep firefox)/cmdline`<br>should tells us whether firefox is 32 or 64-bit.<br><br>Also:<br><br>uname -i<br><br>Will tell us if you're using a 64-bit/32-bit OS (if you're 64-bit, but<br>using a 32-bit firefox, then it's probable you're updating the wrong version<br>of flash).<br><br>Also, it's worth checking the url:<br><br>about:plugins<br><br>in firefox,  to see if it's finding any at all. If it is, the output of:<br><br>cat /proc/$(pgrep firefox)/maps  |grep flash<br><br>ought to show the actual shared-objects being loaded
 (the paths may prove<br>useful; in my case, my flash shared object isn't actually in a package, but<br>is pulled in via flashplugin-installer).<br><br>also the output of<br><br>dpkg --get-selections |grep flash<br><br>Would be helpful.<br><br>Andy<br><br><br> </div> </div>  </div></body></html>