Forgive the top posting.

After doing some research,
I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, re-loaded Firefox and all is well.


Larry


Larry Alkoff wrote:
> The error message:
> Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of
> Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.
>
> The above produced by
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z70zNOSZ160&eurl=
> but also many other sites.
>
> However, on some sites I can watch a flash movie without any problems.
>
> Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
> Gecko/20080419 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/2.0.0.14
>
> Java and Javascript are both checked in the Firefox preferences.
>
> Installed programs:
> flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.124.0ubuntu2
> java-common 0.28ubuntu3
> sun-java6-bin 6-06-0ubuntu1
> sun-java6-fonts 6-06-0ubuntu1
> sun-java6-jre 6-06-0ubuntu1 6-06-0ubuntu1
> sun-java6-bin 6-06-0ubuntu1
> ubuntu-restricted-extras (multiverse is enabled)
>
> What more can I do?
>
> Larry