Facebook and flash - why doesn't facebook recognise that I have flash installed?

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Published on 2010-12-09T09:50:33Z Indexed on 2011/02/05 7:33 UTC
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For some reason when I try to upload photos to facebook from the website, it tells me I need to upgrade my flash player:

facebook photo uploader

I definitely have flash installed, as can be seen in the picture, and working fine in youtube etc.

flash version

My question is two-fold:

1) Does anyone know if this a problem with the version of flash I'm running, Ubuntu, or facebook itself? I get the same problem in Chrome and Firefox, so I know it's not the browser.

2) Is there a workaround or fix for this? As far as I can tell I'm running the very latest flash (on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10) - but maybe that's the problem?

Note: Before everyone starts jumping up and down about using Shotwell or Digikam or some such to upload photos to facebook, I know about these (and do use Shotwell at times). Unfortunately Shotwell only lets you upload to a Profile, but doesn't (as far as I can tell) let you upload to a facebook Page of which I am an administrator, so I am forced do it through the website. Using the simple uploader as seen in the first picture is horribly slow and tedious, and often times out while uploading.

Of course if anyone knows of any alternate ways to upload to facebook pages I'd love to hear 'em!

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