Flash on Debian Lenny

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:46:43PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>
>I'm not sure I understand how Flash works on Debian Lenny. I've tried
>installing Flash with the Adobe installer and the Debian package from non-free,
>but when I try to view videos on Youtube, it appears that what I'm getting is
>the Mozilla plugin that's installed with Gnome (swfdec-mozilla?). When I right
>click on a video, it doesn't show me the Flash menu, it shows the Gnome-style
>GTK menu. The video will not play, though it appears to start loading it never
>goes beyond the first frame, as though it's just showing a thumbnail or
>something (?).

I think what you need to do is to go to Tools -> Add-ons -> plugins, and
disable the offending plugin.
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yours,

William

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