Flash player problems on facebook

Discussion in 'Linux' started by glennsadler, Jul 22, 2010.

  1. glennsadler

    glennsadler

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    Hi all

    I have a Acer Aspire One running Linpus Linux Lite 1.0.21.E. Using Firefox v2. Having problems with running video clips on facebook. It looks to load the video for ever, if I click back then it asks for flash player. I've checked the net and tried various ways of installing flash. It all seems that I have installed this fine and videos on youtube for eg works fine.

    Anyone have any ideas, I'm going slowing nuts here....

    Cheers
     
    glennsadler, Jul 22, 2010
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    tuxr99

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    It probably has something to do with the fact that your using firefox 2, and it is no longer good for surfing the modern web. My girlfriend has no problems with facebook using firefox 3.6 See if you can update firefox.
     
    tuxr99, Jul 23, 2010
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  3. glennsadler

    Grim Squeaker

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    The Linpus Lite you used was based on Fedora 8. Fedora is now at version 13. Linpus was never updated and is as oldfashioned as windows 98 by now.
    Consider upgrading to a more recent linux distribution. Ubuntu Netbook Remix is pretty userfriendly, but at the limits of what your Aspire one (assuming you have the 8 GB SSD, 512 MB ram version) can still handle.

    If you really want to keep linpus, you can download the last "officially supported by Acer" firefox customised for the One here:
    http://www.acer.com/aspireone/aspireone ... nnect.html
    Note that is still outdated, but more up to date than yours.

    Alternatively, use the intructions provided on the Macles* blog to get the most recent version of firefox and flash:

    http://macles.blogspot.com/2010/06/adob ... eased.html
    http://macles.blogspot.com/2010/07/fire ... eased.html

    Yet another idea is to install Google Chrome (or the derivative Chromium) and use that as main browser instead of firefox. Chrome has integrated flash support nowadays.

    Hope it helps :)
     
    Grim Squeaker, Jul 25, 2010
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