Firefox's plugin finder fails to install flash

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Hardy.4 candidates. Firefoxes plugin finder fails to either locate or download flash on 32 or 64 bit installs.

Steps to reproduce:
After install open Firefox
goto http://www.vimeo.com
Note the yellow bar across the top of the screen for finding plugins.

It will open the plugin finder window but then it takes a long while to complete the search and then fails to find anything.

It should find flash and download and install flash for you.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 25 15:12:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-26-generic x86_64

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please dont just change the status without leaving a comment on why. I reverted back to incomplete since no comment was left.
Changed package to ubufox for now.

Can you both give screenshots of what you are looking at.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubufox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]