Flash player not working in firefox

[Ioannis Vranos]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
> Actually, according to my upgrade widget, there is 20 minutes left on
> the 9.04 download. But, I've already investigated the Intel chipset
> thing, and am not optimistic. Its a known issue. 
> 
> For me the upgrade 8.04 -> 8.10 had immediate and horrible performance
> ramifications. I've minimized a lot of that by moving to xfce,
> changing screen resolutions, using text mode apps (which is fine with
> me actually), and various xorg.conf tweaks. But the continued abysmal
> performance of Firefox is close to being a show stopper. Things like
> typing or scrolling cause 100% CPU usage. Really, really, really
> majorly annoying. Anyway, I am glad I am not new to Ubuntu, as I would
> have run as fast as possible back to windows. And hopefully, 9.04 has
> some relief. We will see soon enough. And hells bells, it wouldn't be
> Linux if it worked first time every time. There just has to be an
> occasional challenge to put hair on your chest. 


In any case, flash (64-bit) from the repositories, is working fine in Firefox, after a *clean installation* of 
Ubuntu 9.04 x64 at my system.



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