Flash problem finally over!

For some time, I have been having problems with Flash videos from one specific resource: the Daily Show (and Colbert Report), both streamed by Comedy Central. (Or is it MTV? Oh, whatever.)

Point is, the video would load, but a little popup would show in it saying something like: "Error loading stylesheet. RSL http://media.mtvnservices.com/global/flex/rsl/framework_3.2.0.3958.swz failed to load. Error #2046".

And I couldn't get rid of this thing. Opera wasn't able to show it either. Going back to Windows every time and firing up IExplorer wasn't so exciting either. So I tried to reinstall, uninstall and reconfigure all those flash libraries (okay, there's really two or three of them), and just couldn't get it work. Until, many websites later, I simply tried to uninstall flashplugin-nonfree and installed the adobe-flashplugin from Adobe's website directly. Strange thing happened... it worked. Sometimes it's not that hard at all.

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On the side, I learned of an interesting little setting for later use. In Firefox, visit the about:config page, search for 'plugin' and double-click on the line plugin.expose_full_path. Since you are changing your most basic configuration, you should probably know, what it does. (Funnily enough, Opera allows to display and change this information much more easily. Hm. I still like Firefox more.)

This little setting shows the full path to plugins on the about:plugin page. Extremely useful for debugging your plugins and their actual versions, as reinstalling newer versions sometimes leaves the old stuff behind. Maybe it will help some people out.