[ale] Ubuntu 9.04 & Flash at pandora.com, facebook

[reggie at busicast.com]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:23:54 -0400
  rmellema <rmellema at exithere.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:37 -0400, <reggie at busicast.com> wrote:
>> Short:  Help requested re: new Ubuntu 9.04 install, trying to play 
>> pandora.com audio, facebook.com videos (both, I believe, flash); 
>> neither will play.
>> 

> 
> I am having the same exact problem.
> 
> -- 
> Ron Mellema
> 

This sounds more like an authentication/cookie/proxy/referrer problem 
than a
Flash problem.

Try installing the Firebug add-on in Firefox to see if you can 
diagnose the
problem.

Cheers,
Robert~
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Glad to hear it wasn't just me...

I installed Firebug as Robert suggested. I'm no Firebug expert, so 
maybe missed something important, but didn't see anything that would 
explain things here. Firebug did highlight the fact that swfdec 0.8.2 
was being used, which made me wonder...looked at 
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org but didn't find a clue.

I thought I might try uninstalling/reinstalling swfdec, but this was 
complicated by the fact that I'd earlier tried to install Galeon (one 
paged I'd Googled seemed to suggest Galeon might work better than 
Firefox...). Using Synaptic, the install failed. Synaptic failed to 
remove Galeon also. While this was in failure mode, couldn't 
add/remove anything, so I clicked the Synaptic box that left Galeon 
where it was. Trouble is, when I tried to now use Synaptic to 
uninstall swfdec, it again failed, complaining of the problems with 
Galeon (which seemed to be prompted only because Synaptic couldn't 
find Galeon files to remove?)

Anyway, no joy so far.

I'm looking at deleting any reference I can find to Galeon via command 
line. Anyone happen to know whether that would risk breaking Synaptic 
or otherwise causing bigger problem than it might solve?

Thanks!