[Bug 230530] [NEW] Installing Macromedia flash player doesn't cause Flash to work immediately

[Gerv]

Public bug reported:

I did a usability test recently with my housemate, who has never used
Linux before. We installed Hardy on his Dell laptop after the Windows
install died, and then I watched his first half an hour while giving him
tasks to do. This bug comes out of that experience.

a) The installation process for Flash in Firefox, when prompted via
YouTube, sucks. YouTube gives you a link to the Macromedia website,
which (if you can find your way round it) gives you .tar.gz, rpm or yum.
Not that my housemate knows what any of those are anyway. We need a
process as smooth as the codec download stuff.

c) (The thing this bug is about) Once you've installed flashplugin-
nonfree, Firefox still doesn't work. You have to restart Firefox. But he
didn't know that. He assumed it hadn't worked. Either:

- The installation should end with a screen saying "now restart Firefox"
or
- It should Just Work(TM).

Gerv

** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Installing Macromedia flash player doesn't cause Flash to work immediately
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