I recently switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint. Linux Mint is an amazing distro which almost completely worked out of the box for me (minus wireless of course, but I’ll leave my fix for that for another post.) I did notice however that my embedded flash player for Firefox 3 did not work. It did work when I tried the same page (YouTube.com) in Opera. This, of course led me to one conclusion… the Mozilla plug-in was malfunctioning. I corrected this problem with a quick fix:
In Synaptic, I searched for “Flash” and came up with the offender: flashplugin-nonfree. I simply elected to try adobe-flashplugin instead. Simply look or search for this package and click “Mark for Installation”. Synaptic should automatically try to install adobe-flashplugin and remove flashplugin-nonfree. Once the operation has completed, restart Firefox and try it out!