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Flash Player won't work - Opera v.9.27/Ubuntu 8.04

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Timothy Daniels

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Aug 23, 2008, 10:23:21 PM8/23/08
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I've got Opera v.9.27 installed along with Firefox in my
Ubuntu 8.04. I've installed the Flash Player using the
Synaptics Package Manager, and the Flash content on
the Adobe website plays fine in Firefox. But Opera,
although it lists the path to the Shockwave Flash player
in its Plug-ins GUI, doesn't play the Flash content.
In Quick Preferences, and in Preferences | Advanced |
Content, "Enable plug-ins" is checked. And in Plug-in
Options, paths leading to Flash Player .so files are
listed. Why can't Opera find them?

*TimDaniels*


Rijk van Geijtenbeek

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Aug 24, 2008, 11:23:41 AM8/24/08
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Op Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:23:21 +0200 schreef Timothy Daniels
<SpamB...@nospamplease.biz>:

Opera 9.5 should be much better at dealing with (recvent versions of) the
Flash plugin on Linux.

--
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/

"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users
say rather than actually watching what they do." - J.Nielsen

Timothy Daniels

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Aug 31, 2008, 2:25:00 PM8/31/08
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"Rijk van Geijtenbeek" wrote:
> Timothy Daniels schreef:

>
>> I've got Opera v.9.27 installed along with Firefox in my
>> Ubuntu 8.04. I've installed the Flash Player using the
>> Synaptics Package Manager, and the Flash content on
>> the Adobe website plays fine in Firefox. But Opera,
>> although it lists the path to the Shockwave Flash player
>> in its Plug-ins GUI, doesn't play the Flash content.
>> In Quick Preferences, and in Preferences | Advanced |
>> Content, "Enable plug-ins" is checked. And in Plug-in
>> Options, paths leading to Flash Player .so files are
>> listed. Why can't Opera find them?
>
> Opera 9.5 should be much better at dealing with (recent

> versions of) the Flash plugin on Linux.
>
> --- Rijk van Geijtenbeek

[the following applies to the Linux version of Opera]
Yes. I uninstalled Opera 9.27 and installed Opera 9.52,
and and the new version linked to the same link that Firefox uses -
which, in turn, links to the actual plugin. So now both Linux
browsers use the same Flash plugin.

*TimDaniels*


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