Re: Firefox problems on SuSE 10.2

On 2006-12-16, Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lee Graba wrote:
Vahis wrote:

Lee Graba wrote:
Lee Graba wrote:

Vahis wrote:

Lee Graba wrote:
houghi wrote:

Lee Graba wrote:

Download that Flash 9 from Adobe, you'll have a file called
FP9_plugin_beta something.

Extract the file and you'll have a file called libflashplayer.so.

Go to /usr/lib/browser-plugins
Become root.

Rename the file that has the same name.
Put the new one there.

Restart Firefox. That's it.

download a newer version of flash. Is there some secret URL that has
the version for linux?

Actually, I was able to find the version 9 plug-in for linux through
google.
I followed the instructions to install it, but still no joy. I changed
the name of the old flash plug-in so that it wouldn't be found, but when

Download that Flash 9 from Adobe, you'll have a file called
FP9_plugin_beta something.


Extract the file and you'll have a file called libflashplayer.so.

Go to /usr/lib/browser-plugins
Become root.

Rename the file that has the same name.
Put the new one there.

Restart Firefox. That's it.
The 7 plugin is like 2 kb while the 9 is maybe 6 kb.


JOY! The problem was that I was putting all the new stuff in
~/.mozilla/plugins. When I renamed the version 7 libflashplayer.so
in /usr/lib/browser-plugins (which you had instructed, but which I had
glossed over), then the version 7 ceased to shown up, and I had only
version 9. AND, break.com and youtube.com now work.

Thank you very much for your help.


You're welcome.

Much snippage in the above, but for those still wondering where it is ...
try "wget http://www.adobe.com/go/fp9_update_b2_installer_linuxplugin";
- this courtesy of Adam Deacon at www.deaconsworld.org.uk - thanks Adam.

Full instructions contained in the readme.txt

HTH - Barclay Weir



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