flash playback stopped functioning in Firefox

[Guest]

I really need your help!!!
After installing Internet Explorer 7 and flash support for it in wine, flash in Firefox stopped working, although all the necessary plugins in Firefox are installed and enabled.
Please, help me to restore flash functionality in Firefox. I'm on Kubuntu 10.04.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

[Snowhog]

Re: flash playback stopped functioning in Firefox

In Firefox, type aboutlugins in the URL window. You should see:

Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockware-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

And, in a console, libflashplayer.so should be located in:

paul@mybrainonlinux:~$ locate libflashplayer.so
[sudo] password for paul:
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

And they should be identified as:

paul@mybrainonlinux:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10291000 2010-05-02 11:30 /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
paul@mybrainonlinux:~$ ls -l /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2010-05-02 11:30 /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

Here, flash works correctly in Firefox (Version 3.6.3)