Since a couple of days it is not possible for me to watch YouTube videos in Firefox - nevertheless I installed Opera and tried it successfully to play videos with it.
What I tried so far (and did not work / change anything):
- started Firefox in safe mode
- reinstalled flash package
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
- switched to HTML5 mode on youtube
- I also tried
cd; rm -r .adobe .macromedia
- I enabled / disabled hardware acceleration
Always same result: Either error message
an error occured
or only black screen with spinning wheel.
Can anybody please help?
Output of lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|lightspark'
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux architect 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:34 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.346ubuntu0.13.10.1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
And also tried with adobe package:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux architect 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:34 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii adobe-flash-properties-gtk 11.2.202.346-0saucy1 amd64 GTK+ control panel for Adobe Flash Player plugin version 11
ii adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.346-0saucy1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 11