Re: F9: Adobe Flash: It works, it does not work - repeating syndrome.

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:50:28 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:

I have tried in vain to get Adobe's Flash to work in FF. It does not
matter how many times I have tried installing, un-installing the adobe
flash package - it says it was installed successfully.

The problem so it appears, is flash works sometimes and sometimes it
does not. I think this may be because the default flash plugin is
actually swfdec Yes, I have libflashsupport installed as well.

Under FireFox, you can try to change the swf default under 'Preferences'
- however - I am clueless as how to override swfdec and force the
default to be Adobe's Flash - attempts to try to do so only opens up a
File/Directory Dialog box and I am clueless as to where/what
directory/file needs to be loaded - I thought it was something of a
library like:

/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

but that does not seem to work.

Btw: I have no problems with F8 - works like a charm and it does not use
swfdec - but then again - that was with FF v2.0.x

Any advice?

Thanks!
Dan

This is what worked for me. I thought I'd keep it as simple as possible
(but no simpler) so I

uninstalled mozplugger
uninstalled nspluginwrapper

These two alone didn't do anything. The thing that made it work was
install Sun's Java. In fact I had it installed, but alternatives was
pointing to openjdk or whatever it's called. Once I got firefox to use
Sun's java everything worked. It may still work if I reinstall mozplugger
and nspluginwrapper, but I didn't bother.

I know, other people were already using Sun java and still can't play
embedded flash clips in FF, so it may or it may not work for you.


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