On 04/04/2011 08:37 AM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2011 08:09, ken wrote: > >> What does your "about:plugins" page say? (For explication, see the >> about:plugins subthread.) Or do you have some other diagnostic which >> indicates these are not the same? > > It does say "Shockwave Flash". Now isn't that interesting, because Adobe > itself says they're different things. In the download section at > http://www.adobe.com/products/ , they're listed separately and, as > Sorin pointed out, Shockwave isn't even available for Linux. Perhaps the adobe webpage is a bit incomplete, or maybe they're talking about the Windows plugins, I don't know. I have to believe more what I read on my system. > > Anyway, did you download Flash for Linux at > http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer ? This kind of thing is not easy to remember. Most of the time I assume that, version numbers being the same, especially in the case of commercial binaries, the packages will be the same regardless of where they come from.