When Adobe Flash Settings Isn’t Clickable On Ubuntu 11.10
Adobe Flash Settings always worked fine back when I was still using Ubuntu Natty Narwhal in that whenever a Flash application needs permission to access my laptop’s camera and microphone, I can click on the Allow/Deny options. On Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot Flash settings is unclickable and it will eventually hang and crash whenever it asks to access the camera and microphone. I don’t know if this happens on all the sites, but on one site I’m working on, this happens all the time. The browser does not matter, at least for the ones I use. It will crash on both Firefox and Chrome.
Note that I am trying to run Flash apps through a Red5 video streaming server on a VPS with CentOS 6. Please do not confuse this issue with Flash not working entirely because it does. The issue only arises when a Flash app needs to access the cam and/or mic.
The work around for this problem is to explicitly set that particular site to have permission to access my laptop’s devices. It can be done in 2 ways:
1) Adobe site’s Flash Player Settings Manager found at this location: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html
2) Adobe Flash Player Preferences. This is the app that comes with the Adobe Flash installation on your Linux distro. On Ubuntu 11.10 this app can be accessed through Dash and typing in the word “adobe”.
Remeber to Add the website if it is not yet in the list.
As of this writing the latest Adobe Flash version is 11.1.102.62.
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9 Responses to “When Adobe Flash Settings Isn’t Clickable On Ubuntu 11.10”
April 24, 2012 at 8:40 am »
I suffered for so much time figuring out how to make it happen. I even downloaded 12.04 to see if the issue was resolved or not – unfortunately it’s a Unity issue in Ubuntu 12.04 (and 11.10) and your solution above is an excellent work-around.
Thank you for this.
April 24, 2012 at 8:48 am »
Is it? I can’t really say it’s a Unity issue since it worked fine on Natty Narwhal in that I can click ‘Allow’ whenever it asks permission.
Can you link the bug here pls?
Thanks and glad I can be of help.
June 18, 2012 at 12:34 am »
YEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEM YEHAAAAA YOU FIXED THE PROBLEM
FACK YEAAA BUT ITS SO BAD THAT LINUX HAS MANY PROBLEMS THEY SHOULD
START SELLING PROGRAMS WITH SOME LOW FEE COST SO THEY CAN BECOME TO MAKE BETTER SOFTWARE
A LIST HAVE A THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHOSE TO SPEND FUCK END DAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OR PAY A LITTLE FEE AND RESOLVE THE PROBLEM RIGHT FAST
EXCUSE MY ENGLISH AND EXCUSE ME BUT I AM A NEW USER ON LINUX AND ITS A PAIN IN THE ASS TO SPEND HOURS TO FIX SOMETHING
AND STEAL IS LITTLE TIME CONSUMING TO GO TO ADOBE PREFERENCES EVERY TIME THE CAMERA DOES NOT WORK
BUT ANY WAY THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED HEHEHEHEHE FUCK YEHAAAA
June 18, 2012 at 2:00 am »
Calm down. It’s good you got it fixed. There are Linux distros that offer support for a minimal fee. If you want that, then you should consider that particular distro.
June 18, 2012 at 12:36 am »
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June 19, 2012 at 5:02 pm »
Hi. I thank you very much for posting your workaround. It works in bypassing the permission screen but then I get stuck at the microphone/webcam preferences dialog, so the flash player freezes again since I can’t cofigure the preferences for the microphone (volume, etc.) and the webcam device. Did you get over this other problem? How did you do it? I can’t get the mic/webcam to work past this second step so any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance in your reply.
June 27, 2012 at 2:53 am »
That does not happen to me. But you should be able to configure everything on that web link just as you are able to do so on the desktop app for Flash on Linux. Try it out.
November 7, 2012 at 6:28 pm »
I’m afraid to say there’s only one problem, this does not allow me to select which camera I use, sadly there’s one that’s shit and there’s on that’s not so I’m rather picky in this regard since the shit one is built into the computer.
I wonder if this will ever be resoved?
November 8, 2012 at 2:55 am »
Resolved? Well, I am doubtful. They have already stopped supporting Flash for Linux. The last version already came out. Flash on desktop is dying and it looks like on mobile it is already on its way out the door. iOS has never supported Flasn and on Android will soon be phased out. IIRC you cannot download Flash on JellyBean anymore because it is no longer available in the Google Play Store. You can install it manually and it will still run, but that’s about it. They’ve also stopped Flash development on Android.