@mariageller67
Very true. (although I haven't had flash "always" breaking before)
You shouldn't poke these files manually. If you must work outside package
manager (again, not the best idea) it's better to keep the changes out of the
system files and contain them in user directory.
For flash it
I installed an old version of flash player to keep using flash content until
adobe releases a new version that works.
I did this manually since repository doesn't have older versions and I couldn't
use Synaptic's force version option.
This is what I did (on Ubuntu Precise 32bit):
* I Downloaded
On my machine Firefox doesn't freeze but all I get is a black box instead of
flash video. I tried to change the file permissions and copy the
libflashplayer.so file to all possible locations I know and see if that does
anything but all I got was plugin-container hanging.
Locations I tried were:
