Firefox does not suggest a plugin when encountering Flash content

[Jani Kemppinen]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

video not seen on that site, it is without sound too that not work at all. and that Linux not ask if I want install something new on it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Jeffrey Hearn (cowbellemoo)]

It looks like you don't have a Flash player installed and that loading a webpage with flash didn't cause Firefox to give a plugin download prompt. Is this correct?

[Jeffrey Hearn (cowbellemoo)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 272722, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Jani Kemppinen (jani-kemppinen-gmail)]

I can watch other flash files on other sites that isin't problem, only that one site make problems to look those films, taht site work so fine with XP and firefox http://www.katsomo.fi/?treeId=304&progId=11901, but with linux it make problems

[Jeffrey Hearn (cowbellemoo)]

Which Flash plugin are you using?

[Antony Riley (antony-cyberiantiger)]

It's not a flash video, it is an embeded wmv video.

The only thing that'll play this video without crashing 100% of the time on ubuntu is mozilla-plugin-vlc (all of the xine, mplayer, gstreamer plugins crash or don't run at all because they can't decode it).

This bug is not a duplicate of 272722.

This problem comes up quite often in Finland as at least 2 of the free TV channels use this site to allow viewing recently aired programs. (MTV3/SUB)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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