Comment 17 for bug 830173

I reported similar problems on bug report 933509. There does seem to be a conflict between the "GNU Gnash free GPL'd SWF player" and the Adobe Flash player; both seem to want to be the only Flash player on the PC.

I had removed, then reinstalled the Adobe player, and kept getting a message saying my Flash was out-of-date. Today, I removed both the Adobe and the GNU Gnash player, and then just reinstalled the Adobe Flash player.

Now, Tools > Addons > "Check to see if your plugins are up to date" reports that my Flash player IS up to date. I can play Youtube OK. The videos on http://tv.yahoo.com/primetime/ no longer report that Flash is not present on the PC, but it plays in erratic 2-5 second snippets skipping through the various videos available there. Likewise on the ABC.com site.

The Adobe flash player installed alone seems to work better than the Gnu Gnash SWF player installed alone. Neither works as well as Adobe Flash on In****** Ex****** on Wi***** XP, though.

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