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

[Gerv]

John: I think you've mistriaged this. I don't know what the "Adobe Flash
Extension Kit" is, and I wasn't using it. Nothing showed up in the top
right hand corner of the page. He visited YouTube, and it told him (in
the page) "either JS is off or you need an upgraded Flash", and gave him
a link to Macromedia.  Neither Firefox nor Ubuntu did anything special
to prompt Flash installation.

Exactly the same problem was reported in the great Ubuntu Girlfriend Experiment:
http://contentconsumer.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/
(Second task)

In addition, after installing flashplugin-nonfree via Synaptic we didn't
see any light bulb suggesting that Firefox be restarted. It's possible
we may have missed it, but I don't think so. Regardless, a small
lightbulb appearing wouldn't be enough - you need a desktop
notification.

I work for the Mozilla Foundation, so I do know a bit about how this
works. :-)

Gerv

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