Ubuntu
firefox package

firefox adobe flash plugin no longer works

Bug #578069 reported by Brendan Mannix
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Expired
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Release: 10.04 - 64bit
default install

Expected behavior:
After installing the adobe flash plugin in mozilla firefox, a user can switch back to swfdec then go back to the adobe plugin.

Actual behavior:
Everything was working great with the adobe flash plugin for firefox, but I switched back to swfdec player anyway to check something, and now I cannot get back to the adobe plugin. When I open the "Mange content pluggins" window and find Adobe Flash Movie, it listed swfdec as the player, and adobe is not listed in the dropdown box so I select 'search'. When I try to apply the adobe installer there, it tells me it's already installed. I even, uninstalled the pluggin via synaptec and let firefox instal it again in the hope that it would use it, but no. Even editing the about:config modules.plugins.mimetype.application/x-shockwave-flash by changing this value to: libflashplayer.so but no change. It uses swfdec anyway.

ojap (ojap-deactivatedaccount)
affects: ubuntu → firefox (Ubuntu)
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Brendan Mannix (bmannix) wrote :

deleting ~/.mozilla had no effect.
removing and reinstalling firefox via synaptic had no effect.

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Brendan Mannix (bmannix) wrote :

I was able to get firefox to use flash again by executing:
sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla

and it updated my dependencies to use adobe instead. I still think that I should be able to configure Firefox to use either without uninstalling swfdec.

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drew212 (mstngdrew212) wrote :

Thank you for submitting this bug and helping to improve Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If a new profile helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can test a new profile by starting profile manager with the following command, but make sure all Firefox windows are closed first:
firefox -ProfileManager

To disable extensions, Tools > Add-ons > Find the extension >
Highlight and click 'Disable' > Restart Firefox

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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