Cannot watch web videos in Mozilla 2.0.0.8

[Anton Rolls]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2007 1:38 AM, john d. herron <paradox.herron at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>  Jonathan,
>>  As you can see from my last message (below), I already have the plugin for
>>  FFX Flash 9 r48 (libflashplayer.so) installed.
>>  Any other possibilities ? What if I was to remove  a l l  of the plugins
>> currently
>>  present in /.mozilla/firedox, so as to have a clean slate, then re-download
>> and install
>>  FFX Flash 9 r48 only?
>>  Thanks for helping
>>  john
> 
> Just a guess, but maybe you don't need _three_ flash plugins to play
> flash videos?  Your previous email showed that you have
> libgnashplugin.so, libflashplayer.so, and libflash-mozplugin.so.
> Maybe they are interfering with each other and you should just choose
> one (probably best to go with libflashplayer.so).  You probably don't
> need to delete _all_ of the plugins, just the other two that you don't
> want.  Do this and see if it works.  If not, delete the
> libflashplayer.so and reinstall using Johnathan's suggestions.
> 
> Andrew

That echoes with my experience.
Today I installed Adobe Flash 32bit using nspluginwrapper in Firefox 
64-bit (on Kubuntu 64-bit).
I was installing from the command line, and I found when there were
multiple plugin installations, the plugin would only work the first
time Firefox was loaded, but not after that.
This situation cleared up when I deleted all the plugins and installed
just one.

(I kept extensive notes, by the way, so I'm thinking of publishing a guide.)

Anton Rolls.