[lug] No flash on the Daily Show

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 10:52:55 MDT 2010


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Davide Del Vento
<davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it is found.  And I've used two different packages to install it.
>>  Flash plays in, say, youtube and guitartricks, so it is usually okay.
>
> Just a dumb thing that happened to me, so it might be happening to
> you: do you have the no-script plugin installed in firefox? I do and
> it's a great plugin (if you don't know what I'm talking about, I
> recommend that you google it, because it's absolutely a must,
> regardless of this conversation!!!)
>
> If you do, you usually enable flash where you want clicking on the
> dummy flash box. A few sites, recently, display a "you need to install
> (or upgrade) flash" instead of the enablable (is it a word??) box.
> What the heck? My flash is installed and up to date!
>
> Well, after a while I realized that it was no-script. Enabling the
> website from the bottom-right icon fix the issue.

Huh.  I don't think I have that, but I'll double check.  Thanks for
the tip, Davide.

Michael



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