Flash Player not working in Firefox !!

[GinnyBhullar]

I am trying to fix flash problem in Ubuntu 8.04, already installed all packages available in Respository but still flash is not working in mozilla firefox.. any idea ?

[saivin]

I usually do,

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

then we need to close all the browsers open and restart them. It has always worked for me.

Or you can do one thing. Instead of installing from Ubuntu repos, try downloading and installing from Adobe's site itself. The following link has clear instructions on how to do it.

Installing Flash on Ubuntu

Good luck in any case.

[GinnyBhullar]

I usually do,

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

then we need to close all the browsers open and restart them. It has always worked for me.

Or you can do one thing. Instead of installing from Ubuntu repos, try downloading and installing from Adobe's site itself. The following link has clear instructions on how to do it.

Installing Flash on Ubuntu

Good luck in any case.

i have installed flash using terminal in the same way, you told. but still it doesn't work. I don't know what is the problem.. I tried downloading the.deb package from adobe. Even after that flash is not working

[devils casper]

Are you using 64bit version of Ubuntu? Post the output of uname -a command here.

[sahabcse]

Hi
Try

apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

[GinnyBhullar]

I solved the problem. Problem was with Firefox 3 which comes with Ubuntu. It was not even getting uninstalled from synaptic manager. So I just deleted the folders of firefox. Downloaded the latest version from Mozilla.com and installed. Its running perfectly with adobe flash-plugin.

Now can somebody tell me how can I create shortcut in the menu for Newly Installed Firefox?

[devils casper]

Press Alt+F2 and type this

alacarte

Create a new entry and add path of firefox.
I don't know if alacarte is pre-installed or not. Install it through Synaptic if its not available.

[graphicks]

Since I am not as comfortable with the command line, I'll pose another way of adding the menu item.
Go to 'System > Preferences > Main Menu'. You will be able to highlight the area of the menu where you want the new entry (in the left frame). Then there is a choice for 'New Item" (on the right side). Enter the path and comments, and you're done.