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by Michael Hammer on September 2, 2006
This teaches you to change your flash player 7 on Xubuntu to a flash player 9. Its small, and really easy to do.
1) Make a back-up of the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat:cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat.bak2) Edit that file:
nano ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat3) Replace the lines that say
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63:$to
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r63:$And you have Flash 9 (kind-of.)
Permalink: Flash 9 For Xubuntu
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I did the changes as outlined and it just helped my Firefox to crash on Debian unstable whenever I access a flash site...