I’ve just been told about a programme called Foxit. The person who told me about it said it’s better than Adobe. I cannot update to newest version of Adobe on Firefox for some reason, so I keep having to click on the grey box to get anything to work on Adobe. Consequently if Foxit is better and compatible with Mint 13 then I’m interested.
Does anyone have any opinions on Foxit?
Thanks in advance. 
I have never tried Foxit, so cannot comment on it but, you could update the flash player (assuming that is what you mean with Adobe) on Mint:
Go to Adobe site and download recent tar.gz pack of FLASH player for linux.
Extract folder, open it and copy paste the libflashplayer.so file to etc/alternatives overwrite the old one.
Use mv command while root. It should do the trick.
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives
That’s it, log in/out or restart browser.
A quick “google” suggests foxit is a PDF reader, not a flashplayer … am I correct ?
If so, are you saying .pdf’s don’t open in firefox ?
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I must admit I hadn’t looked myself so I didn’t realise it was just a PDF reader. It’s Flashplayer that I’m having problems with.
I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean by ‘Use mv command while root.’
Which Linux distribution and architecture are you running ?
eg.
Ubuntu 12.04 32bit
Mint 13 32bit
Sorry I was not clear enough, what I meant that by issuing the command as root it would replace the old flash file with the new one.
So if you do:
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives
Assuming you have extracted the libflashplayer.so to your home, then that should work. Otherwise replace with correct location.
[EDIT]
If you have downloaded install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz to your Downloads folder then the following command sequence should work:
mkdir ~/tmp
tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz -C ~/tmp
Then
sudo mv ~/tmp/libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives
Clean up by removing the extracted files:
rm -rf ~/tmp
I have tried both sets of commands and these are the results I get from each:
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ sudo mv libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives
[sudo] password for tanya:
mv: cannot stat `libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory
mkdir ~/tmp
tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz -C ~/tmp
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ mkdir ~/tmp
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/tanya/tmp’: File exists
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz -C ~/tmp
tar (child): /home/tanya/Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
What am I doing wrong? ???
Flash does now seem to working after a fashion. The graphics/videos are fine but the sound is breaking up/jerky.
OK, let’s try this a different way … first run:
sudo updatedb
Now what’s the output from:
locate libflashplayer.so
and
dpkg -l | grep flash
Can you also mention which web browser you use.
I am using Firefox 19.0.2.
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ locate libflashplayer.so
/etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/files/libflashplayer.so
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/files/libflashplayer.so.tar
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/info/libflashplayer.so.tar.trashinfo
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/info/libflashplayer.so.trashinfo
/home/tanya/Downloads/libflashplayer.so.tar
/opt/mint-flashplugin-11/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/libflashplayer.so
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ dpkg -l | grep flash
ii mint-flashplugin 2011.10.19 Metapackage for Adobe Flash plugin
ii mint-flashplugin-11 11.0.1.152 Adobe Flash plugin 11
Can you run:
sudo apt-get remove --purge mint-flashplugin mint-flashplugin-11
Then run:
sudo updatedb
Now post the output from:
dpkg -l | grep flash
and
locate libflashplayer
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ dpkg -l | grep flash
pi mint-flashplugin-11 11.0.1.152 Adobe Flash plugin 11
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ locate libflashplayer
/etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/files/libflashplayer.so
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/files/libflashplayer.so.tar
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/info/libflashplayer.so.tar.trashinfo
/home/tanya/.local/share/Trash/info/libflashplayer.so.trashinfo
/home/tanya/Downloads/libflashplayer.so.tar
/opt/mint-flashplugin-11/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/libflashplayer.so
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $
Videos are jerky too!
Before we go any further … can we find out a bit about your hardware:
what is the output from:
sudo lshw -C display
and
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i model
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for tanya:
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:e140(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d0400000-d04fffff
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i model
model : 23
model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz
model : 23
model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz
tanya@VGN-NS30E-S ~ $
Ok, that should be plenty powerfrull enough for flash …
First (in Firefox) go to Tools>Add-Ons>Plugins and disable ALL plugins called “Shockwave Flash” (there may be more than one)
When they’re all disabled …
Open a terminal and run these commands in sequence:
mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins
then
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
then
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11876059/flashplayer-11.2.202.280-i386.tar.gz
then
tar -xvf flashplayer-11.2.202.280-i386.tar.gz
Now close ALL open web browser instances … and reopen firefox <— THIS IS IMPORTANT
Now test flash.
No Flash now.
“Sorry, we don’t have this video in a format that will play in your browser. You may want to install the Adobe Flash Player to view it.”
What’s the output from:
uname -a
and
ls -a ~/.mozilla/plugins