Flash video reports unavailable in some browsers

Hi,
I was trying out some browsers like uzbl, surf, dwb etc. but found some sites with flash where the video reported "Sorry, this episode is temporarily unavailable". When viewed with Firefox or Chromium it works fine. Here's an example:
http://thepunkeffect.com/?p=4830
Any idea what the issue would be?
Thanks

I think sometimes this is a result of the website not supporting your browser - at least in some cases.  If it occurs on every website that uses flash, then your browser is looking for the plugin in the wrong directory or else you need to install nspluginwrapper (and perhaps configure it to look in your flashplayer directory for libflashplayer.so).

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