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  Nov. 13, 2010 8:53 a.m. 1988RedT2 HalfDork

  I've been using Ubuntu for a couple years now. I am a convert. I set up my computer in a dual-boot configuration, and I almost never boot Win7.

  My only complaint is this: I can't view youtube videos. I have googled and perused ubuntu forums and there are some threads where the OP is having the same problem as I am, but when I take the steps outlined in the solution, I get no results.

  I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and using Firefox browser 3.6.12.

  I have installed flash. Seventeen times. I have purged it and installed it again. If I go to Firefox Tools AddOns Plugins, I see shockwave flash version 10.1 r102 enabled. Everything seems absolutely as it should be. I don't know what else to try. Anybody?

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  Nov. 13, 2010 9:13 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

  I did not have these problems with 9.10. I assume you have installed all the 'restricted' stuff so it is possible that you have multiple versions of flash - one global and one local from trying to manually install it. Try this:

  This will eiminate the duplicate local flash:

  mv .mozilla .mozilla.old

  This will make sure you have the flash installer maintained with the release:

  sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

  Make sure you also accept any updates and install them.

  Run firefox, that should create a completely new local set of files for your user - so you will have to migrate all your bookmarks/passwords/etc... but 1st things first.

  Run a youtube video and see what you get.

  Lord of drivel and harbinger of Floundering

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  Nov. 13, 2010 9:22 a.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork

  Google around for youtube html5. Youtube provides every video in a non-Flash format (because Flash sucks balls), you just have to know where to go. Any decent browser (in other words, not IE) can play the h.264 videos natively. They'll load faster and play smoother, too, since they're not dealing with the overhead of Flash.

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  Nov. 13, 2010 11:58 a.m. 1988RedT2 HalfDork

  Got it!

  I'll look into that html5 stuff.

  Thanks!

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  Nov. 13, 2010 11:59 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

  1988RedT2 wrote: Got it!

  So... it works?

  Lord of drivel and harbinger of Floundering

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  Nov. 13, 2010 1:03 p.m. Derick Freese HalfDork

  10.10 plays flash just fine out of the box. Damned nice OS, too. My only gripes are Google Earth and netflix.

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  Nov. 13, 2010 1:48 p.m. 1988RedT2 HalfDork

  Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

  1988RedT2 wrote: Got it!

  So... it works?

  It does. I missed a detail. Works great now.
  

  I R A idjut.

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  Nov. 13, 2010 3:51 p.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork

  For any youtube video, you can add &html5=True to the address to get the "real" video

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  Nov. 13, 2010 7:56 p.m. eastpark New Reader

  Ubuntu 10.10 and Firefox 3.6.12 here - no problems here.

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