Flash problem it dies

[dellboy]

i seem to get a problem with the flash player at times i can be watching something on youtube or any other site that has a flash player and it stops and i get a blank white space where the video should be this somtimes also happens on other flash objects on sites as well i can somtimes it them back if i hit f5 many times but then at times they just die again

[hotweiss]

This should fix it:

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sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Flash is uninstalled and then reinstalled.

[dellboy]

it looks like it works when i checked mint updates

[gibbs1984]

Didn't work for me, still getting the blank screen, Flash works but at times it cuts out.

I do have Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10 (adobe-flashplugin) installed as well, should I remove this?

[dellboy]

Should be ok have you look at the mint update eg the padlock in the bottom ?

Didn't work for me, still getting the blank screen, Flash works but at times it cuts out.

I do have Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10 (adobe-flashplugin) installed as well, should I remove this?

[gibbs1984]

Should be ok have you look at the mint update eg the padlock in the bottom ?

Didn't work for me, still getting the blank screen, Flash works but at times it cuts out.

I do have Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10 (adobe-flashplugin) installed as well, should I remove this?

Well, when I just ran:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

I restarted and I can't play any Flash programs now, when on YouTube it says:

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

But looking in the Synaptic I have adobe-flashplugin, flashplugin-nonfree & flashplugin-nonfree extrasound all installed.

I'm confused now.

What am I looking for in the padlock, it's all up to date.

[gibbs1984]

Well, even more confused now as I un-installed adobe-flashplugin, flashplugin-nonfree & flashplugin-nonfree extrasound through the Synaptic and then re-installed them all again and now I don't seem to be having any problems running Flash, even on Metacafe where I couldn't run any Flash videos it now runs smoothly.

Confused but it's working so I'm happy

[funky_uncle]

I've been annoyed by that problem for about a year. Just read this thread: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a
and simply uninstalled flashplugin-nonfree and installed adobe-flashplugin. Now I can finally run more than one flash at the same time.