[Nottingham] Firefox problem

[Dave Luff]

Hi Ron,

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).

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.

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.

Jason Irwin wrote:

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).

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!

Cheers - Dave

On 22/01/13 21:04, Ron Wilton wrote:
> Hello
>
> The school that my son goes to has just started using a 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.
>
> Shockwave Flash is installed but this does not work. Can anyone advise 
> my on what I can do to get this site working, please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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