missing plugins

[Rod Joyce]

On Monday 05 November 2007 20:45:53 ndemalia armstrong wrote:
> hello! community, I'm unable to watch videos using Firefox browser it
> complains about missing plugins, i've read some postings on this issue and
> even tried   using adobe flash to no success i'll really appreciate any
> input on this issue and perhaps a walk-through on how to install the
> tar..gz I'm using the Kubuntu 7.10 feisty. I'm still new with this OS and I
> find it very interesting so far, i'm a windows user transitioning to Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance guys.
>
> "love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend"

Is your computer a 32- or a 64-bit machine? There are no (or hardly any) 
64-bit plug-ins for Firefox, and installing or trying to install 32-bit 
plug-ins will not work. (Windoze cheats by having rather a lot of 32-bit 
code, for all I know, some of it is still 16-bit).
Rod