Installing a Shockwave Flash Plugin for Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu

Most of the content rich sites use flash. It is very much true that browsing becomes lame without Shockwave Flash Plugin. In addition to this, installing a Shockwave Flash Plugin sometimes become very much problematic. Here is a small trick, i used in order to install the Plugin.

• First Download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player from the Adobe's site

• Then extract the .deb file. You will get a file named libflashplayer.so.

• All you need to do is, move the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ directory.

sudo mv location_of_libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

• After restarting the browser, put about:config on your URL bar. You should see Shockwave Flash installed. :)