Fought with the computer for a few hours trying to get youtube videos to be less choppy. Thought upgrading the flash plug-in from ver. 9.x to 10.x would help. Tried to install version 10 many times using the DEB package as well as through synaptics but could not firefox to use version 10; disabling versin 9 disables flash completely. To make a long story short I had to override the symlinks for the alternative flash player to point it at version 10:
>cd /etc/alternatives
>sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so xulrunner-flashplugin
>sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
Both flash version 9 and 10 still show up firefox's plug-in list, but 10 is enabled and flash video is indeed smoother.
A better way is, when starting with a fresh install of firefox (no plugins), decline the automatic installation of the flash player when you browse to a page with flash content. Install the version 10 flash player using Sanaptic instead.
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