mp4 or something with ffmpeg or handbrake. If you really must play a flash video, the best method is to just download it and play it with mplayer or similar. Which is a good thing because Flash is a security nightmare. Private Window to test if still not working.Īdobe abandoned Flash for Linux years ago. Ensure Plugins page's Flash Player set to Always Activate for testing purpose. Disable all of your Firefox Extensions/Plugins(except Flash Player) to test if still not working, because UA header might affect YouTube decision to give Update your Firefox if still not working.This is important statement since I have no problem to play YouTube videos in a freshly installed CentOS without flash player. Your question didn't state is it not working for all videos or only few videos. Keep in mind that most of the popular YouTube videos shouldn't need Flash.
Press Ctrl+ C to kill and wait for few seconds to try yum install flash-plugin again, if you see yum lock error.After rpm -i, it will make yum search flash-plugin work, and so yum install flash-plugin will succeed.Visits to should able to see your version: Navigate to ~/Downloads directory which hold the rpm you've downloaded just now, and do sudo rpm -i and sudo yum -y install flash-plugin: ~]$ cd Downloads]$ Downloads]$ sudo rpm -i Downloads]$ sudo yum -y install flash-pluginĬlose all firefox window and restart it, it should work now. Software Install is not reliable, so we must choose Save File:.I just tested it on latest CentOS, it should work: