I can't watch youtube videos in either chromium browser or firefox. I've tried installing a plugin or flash player, but neither seem to work. I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm not real experienced on working on computers.
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Ok, I found the fix! I uninstalled the Adobe flash player, and now it works. Not sure why, but now I can watch YouTube videos in either Firefox or Chrome, and websites that require flash work now as well. On YouTube, it still asks you to install a plugin, but then it plays it anyway. Thanks for all the help!
I must admit that it is difficult to find a good browser that plays flash. So I installed this one https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ and am much happier with the performance.
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Still doesn't work. I first installed Ubuntu on this computer as a Wubi installation, but then I wanted to eliminate Windows so I downloaded a cd and did a full install that way. What's weird is that it worked ok with the Wubi install, but now I'm having this one issue with the cd installation. Before this install, it gave me an error when I played YouTube videos, but it still played. Now I get the same error but it doesn't play the video. It says "couldn't load plug-in". Thanks for the help! Dec 16, 2012 at 0:23
Installing ubuntu-restricted-extras fixed the problem for me. Click the above link to install it using Software Centre or use the command below to install using the terminal:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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