Firefox 3 Crashes With Flash

Ubuntu Hardy: Recently many users complaint about firefox 3 keep on crashing whenever they try to load flash content websites.

To solve this problem:

Solution

1) Install nspluginwrapper

sudo apt-cache search nspluginwrapper

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper

or

wget http://www.chenhow.net/downloads/nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb && \

dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb

2) Install libflashsupport

sudo apt-get install libflashsupport

3) Reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

sudo apt-get remove –purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

4) Restart firefox

5) Problem solved

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