Ubuntu 14.04 Firefox & Flash Plugin

Question

I have a problem with Firefox and the Flash-player.

My other problems I solved with success with uncle Google and a little bit of Ubuntu magazines. But now I am trying to solve this problem nearly 2 days by myself and I cant get it.

First I used the "Adobe Flash-player" from the Software Centre, what followed is, that it failed to load the "libpepflashplayer.so".

Ok, open your browser and use Google, read one search result, the next and so on. In the end it didn't changed a thing.

Here are my search results: the link

Then I reinstalled it, like in the old days. No change, looking at the Firefox add-on's/extensions --> not listed in the "internal" extension (I think you know what I mean). Downloaded it, restarted computer, to be sure, that It should work, no change.

After that over-thinking the situation I cam to the following conclusion. OK, if Adobe doesn't want to work, I gonna try another flash-player, okay, use Google and it will be fine. Not really. I installed the pepper flash plug-in and what I have now, is that the YouTube videos, for example are played in fast forward.

[can't find the link now, where the commands were]

What do I have to do? Why is this happening? How can it be solved?

I don't think it is necessary to give my system data or? Just to be on the safe side:

• i5 Ivy Bridge
• 120GB SSD (enough space)
• Intel HD 4000

Thank you for taking time, to help me.

Have a nice day.

Solution 1

You seemed to have installed the Pepper Flash Plugin.

To make it work for Firefox, enter the following commands -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin

If you don't have Google Chrome installed, you may have to run the following -

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

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However, I would suggest that you use flashplugin-installer instead.

Go to the software center and remove the flash player that you installed.

Now install flash player using the command -

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Solution 2

This is a guess, but I think you need to activate Canonical Partner and then do:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer

Comments

[Xen2050]

Youtube workaround: use HTML5 to watch videos.

[Sparkay]

hey, thank you, I have already done, what is in your link, but I think I have to remove the pepper flash-player first. The problem is still here, even after executing your command.

[Sparkay]

Thank you for the answer. I have tried not only Firefox. I used Chrome on Windows, and I knew about Chromium. With my google-acc it would be much easier to switch to ubuntu. But somehow, Chromium, never wanted to login, with my google account. Thereafter I tested Chrome, int freezed and I had to force it to close. As I understand you, in your answer in the other read, you want me to change another browser, especially Chrome in this case. I gonna work to try to get this work, as a beginner it may take a while, to get it working like it has to work.

[gyropyge]

I confess that I have not yet upgraded any of my 12.04 systems to 14.04, but reading as many complaints as I see on this site, I'm hesitant to do so. I suppose I should if only so I can try to understand and solve them.