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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic - Flash buttons Don't Work

You are playing a game on Facebook or watching a video on YouTube and you notice that your mouse clicks aren’t registering inside the flash object. It worked before Ubuntu 9.10, but doesn’t work now…well we have a workaround.

Alex Knoll suggested this fix on Launchpad:

“I found a workaround for this problem for those who have amd64 installations. Remove all existing flash plugins and download the 64-bit alpha prerelease from adobe’s website here. Then extract the plugin to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (you might need to create the plugins folder) and it should work fine again (mine actually runs faster and smoother than it ever did before)

It worked well for me and I would agree with Alex, it runs faster and smoother.

If you are not sure where ~/.mozilla/plugins/ is, go to your home folder, click View from the menu, then click Show Hidden Files, then look for the .mozilla folder.

UPDATE: If that doesn’t work, try this…

sudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer

Add this before the last line of text “export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1″

Note this is only for x64 machines/installs.

Make sure you restart FireFox once you make the change.

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Internet Connection Slow

I have upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and have been extremely happy, it is the most stable and workable version of Ubuntu Linux to date. However, there is some sort of bug with the network connection. There is a lot of discussion around this at launchpad, but there is a workaround that really works…so until it gets fixed change your DNS setup by following the directions at OpenDNS.

https://store.opendns.com/setup/device/ubuntu/

I followed the directions (these seem to be for Jaunty but you should be able to figure it out) and the connection reset and the problem just went away.

BTW this is not an IPv6 problem like the one we reported with Hardy Heron 8.04

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