How do I give YouTube the Flashplayer plug-in it's asking me for?

I moved this discussion from Acrobat discussion to Flash Player discussion on Bill@VT 's suggestion.

I also edited it last night as follows:

Message was edited by: specificallyjocular After I posted, the following two topics showed in the sidebar under "More Like This"… "Re: Flash player not working in Firefox with YouTube" and "Re: Flash player for Mac PowerPC?" … and I think these may have the answers to my question.

Still, I'd appreciate comments on my post, or just a confirmation that my flash player problem is answered in one or both of those posts. Then I can follow the process outlined there to fix the problem. Thanks, Rafael

My equipment

iBook g4 ppc, 1.5 MB Ram

My programs

Firefox 3.6.28 (default browser, but I also use Safari)

Safari 4.1.3

TenFourFox7450 A browser like Firefox for OS 10.4.11

QuickTimePlayer v 7.6.4 .jpg

Hi,

My YouTube has been running fine both on Safari and on Firefox until a couple of days ago. (Around that time I did happen to download and work with a Firefox offshoot for Tiger called TenFourFox, but I don't know if that caused this problem. TenFourFox is at http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/. What little I’ve used TenFourFox, it’s a great browser, better than Firefox 3.6.28 for me which is the highest I can go with Firefox. I just noticed, though, that there’s a caveat in TenFourFox that says no plug-ins accepted. Then there are a lot of work-around pages which I haven’t gotten into yet. I’ll stick to firefox and safari for now until I get my YouTube back.)

What happens when I arrive at a YouTube or other video site is this. The video window is grayed out and there's a small message that says I need a plug-in. In sequence, as I click, I get the following messages:

I went to the archived Adobe plug-in page and got Flash Player 10.1.102.64, as specified for my OS 10.4.11 and ppc Ibook G4.

Now I've got these two in my application folder:

Flash Player.app

and

Flash Player Debugger.app

But the problem isn't solved. I've downloaded that plug-in, Flash Player 10.1.102.64, a number of times and still can't get YouTube to work.

Infrequently, a YouTube video will run, but it doesn't stream well. That's usually the case anyway because of low bandwidth. For that reason, when I can see the videos (I mean when YouTube's working as it should), I have to download them, then play them in Quicktime. They'll stream evenly, though even then I have to wait for the Quicktime video to buffer.

That's the problem. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rafael