Flash Videos in browser stopped working "correctly". Any ideas for fixing it?

[useful]

Hello fellow helpful kubuntu forum 10.04 folks,

Since last week, maybe the week before that, my flash videos were working great.
I could watch flash videos on cnn.com, foxnews.com, local news websites, youtube, and just about everywhere else.
That is until a week ago or last week.

Then all my flash boxes on my firefox browser, and google browsers stopped working "correctly".

Most of the time, I get black screens, and nothing is showing in them.
All that appears is an empty black filled rectangle.

Sometimes, when it "does work", I see the controls like play, stop, pause at the bottom of the flash video
, but get no video/no audio.

So, then I did what anyone reasonable would do, I went into kpackagekit. Went into the search field,
typed flash, and uninstalled any flash package I had. Rebooted, prayed/hoped it would fix the problem
uninstalling flash stuffs (kind of ironic here, uninstalling to hope it works). Of course, uninstalling didnt fix it.

So, I went over to "get.adobe.com/flashplayer" through firefox to see if there installer would work.
There was a dropdown box, there were 5 options. I tried the .deb one. Downloaded that one. Ran it.
Then I got an error, in which I attached the error to this post. which should appear on here somewhere.
Error was:

Status: Wrong architecture 'i386'

So, 2 weeks later, i'm here without being able to view videos online.

Anyone have any tips I can try to see if I can get flash videos working?

Thanks,
- U

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10.04 LTS Kubuntu
No idea what version of KDE comes with 10.04 Kubuntu
Think I have Grub 2
No other operating systems installed except Kubuntu

Desktop PC
Athlon X3 440 64-Bit
Nvidia 8500
4 GB Ram
2 of them, 160 Gig Hard Drives, No Raid because Kubuntu Fails to install when using RAID

[Telengard]

Re: Flash Videos in browser stopped working "correctly". Any ideas for fixing it?

Are you running 64-bit Kubuntu? If so then you may have to give up on using Flash at all because Adobe has suspended support for 64-bit flash on Linux.

Otherwise you can try some of the advice in this thread.

Edit

Well, I may have stated that too strongly. Lets just say that the last I heard was that 64-bit flash from Adobe was having serious problems. There's nothing stopping you from installing whatever in in the repos btw, so feel free to get flashplugin-nonfree (or whatever it is called on 10.04) from there.

[dibl]

Re: Flash Videos in browser stopped working "correctly". Any ideas for fixing it?

You can find the 10.0r45 flash plugin (64-bit) on the Internet, to download, but Adobe has pulled it and it's gone from the Debian-based repos, due to bugginess and security vulnerabilities.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...25255&forum=38

Your system -- your risk.