Flashplayer on Google Chrome

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

I reinstalled Squeeze and I now have Google Chrome installed and mostly 
working.  I used teh stable deb from Google, ratrher than use the 
repositories and install chromium-browser.  I used dpkg -i and installed teh 
dependencies with apt-get -f install.

This time, Flashplayer and Google Chrome both installed fine. And both Chrome 
and Iceweasel have recognised Flashplayer:
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Chrome:

Plug-ins
Plug-ins (4)            
Details
Remoting Viewer
Name:   Remoting Viewer
Version:        
Location:       internal-remoting-viewer
Type:   PPAPI (in-process)
         Disable
MIME types:     
MIME type       Description     File extensions
application/vnd.chromium.remoting-viewer                
.
pepper-application/x-chromoting         
.
Disable   Always allowed?
Native Client
Name:   Native Client
Version:        
Location:       /opt/google/chrome/libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so
Type:   PPAPI (in-process)
         Disable
MIME types:     
MIME type       Description     File extensions
application/x-nacl      Native Client Executable        
.nexe
Disable   Always allowed?
Chrome PDF Viewer
Name:   Chrome PDF Viewer
Version:        
Location:       /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so
Type:   PPAPI (in-process)
         Disable
MIME types:     
MIME type       Description     File extensions
application/pdf Portable Document Format        
.pdf
application/x-google-chrome-print-preview-pdf   Portable Document Format        
.pdf
Disable   Always allowed?
Flash - Version: 11.2 r202
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Name:   Shockwave Flash
Version:        11.2 r202
Location:       /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Type:   NPAPI
         Disable
MIME types:     
MIME type       Description     File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash   Shockwave Flash 
.swf
application/futuresplash        FutureSplash Player     
.spl
Disable   Always allowed?
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In the case of both pdf and flash I have ticked always allowed.  (After it 
didn't work, not before, but it didn't solve anything.)
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Iceweasel

Enabled plugins
Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org.
Find updates for installed plugins at mozilla.com/plugincheck.
Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.
Shockwave Flash

    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version:
    Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

MIME Type       Description     Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash   Shockwave Flash         swf
application/futuresplash        FutureSplash Player     spl
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But Flash will still not run in either.

Chrome shows a blacked out screen with a jigsaw piece in the middle with a 
downturned mouth.  Sometimes I see the error message "couldn't load plugin" 
immediately before the screen comes up.  That is it.  Things don't play.

Iceweasel simply shows a black screen.  Nothing else happens.

I have Googled on the error message, but could find nothing helpful.

Since no-one else has problems with Flash, it is obviously something to do 
with me; but I am at a loss as to what.

It is frustrating to be so near and yet so far.  So, help! please.

Thank you,
Lisi