[SOLVED] Youtube works with Opera, not Firefox

[JerryP]

My system and Firefox tells me that Adobe Flash is installed but I can't get Youtube to play. Youtube works in Opera.  I'm too used to Firefox to switch to anything else. Any suggestions to quickly resolve this?

[T6]

does it say any specific message on firefox?

what addons do you have in firefox?  flashblock installed?

what version of pclinux/desktop are you running and what version of flash are you using?

[JerryP]

Firefox shows a white box with 2 vertical 1" stripes.
Never installed flashblock (why would anyone except Steve Jobs do that - and you still wonder what his problem is?)
PCLOS 2010 and I installed the current Flash from the Adobe RPM following their instructions to try to resolve this.

[menotu]

You could try creating a new FFox account and see if it still occurs.

Or create a new PCLinuxOS user account and try FFox in that account to see if there is anything lurking around in your main account mucking things up.

[JerryP]

Naturally after looking further at about:plugins I found I had 2 versions of Flash installed. I renamed one (effectively deleting it), restarted FF and Flash is working again.
Thanks for waking me up.

[T6]

"why would anyone except Steve Jobs do that - and you still wonder what his problem is?"

because you don't want to waste bandwidth or hear noises from flash videos that you don't want to hear?

gain speed loading a page?

[JerryP]

"why would anyone except Steve Jobs do that - and you still wonder what his problem is?"

because you don't want to waste bandwidth or hear noises from flash videos that you don't want to hear?

gain speed loading a page?

I would think that with the resources ($$$) available to Apple that they would be able to cooperatively work with Adobe to produce a product that would make all of their propitiatory software/hardware work together instead of at odds. This way they would be able to provide all services in return for the prices they charge their customers.