On Tuesday March 7 2006 13:26, Gil Weber wrote:

On Tue March 7 2006 2:09 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

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Well my Firefox does play (most) Flash animations. However, when I tried these 3 sites I was alerted with messages to upgrade Flash Player.

Message read: "Express Install is not supported by this version of Flash Player. To upgrade, please visit Flash Player download center."

So I went to the download center and the version that's being offered is 7,0,61,0 (November 2005).

That is the version I'm currently using! So I'm stumped why it's prompting me to upgrade when I have the most current version installed. At least I think so.

I checked about:plugins and found the following:

Shockwave Flash 7.0 r61

and below that another Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25.

So I'm wondering if maybe I have a conflict? Should I delete 7.0 r25 and, if yes, how do I delete it from the installed plugins?

Thanks! Gil

Mine didn't lock up my browser, but I have noticed sites that do lock up my browser if they have a lot of flash there. Can't tell you any off the top of my head at the moment. The sites that Kai gave as examples all use flashplayer 8 which is not available for linux yet. Therefore, none of them work currently. I do notice that Firefox is very slow on my machine especially when flash is involved. I had the same problem with Ubuntu and the solution there was to scrap the distro provided Firefox and load the one directly from Mozilla. This seemed to make the browser run much faster on Ubuntu. Haven't tried that on SuSE now that I've moved my laptop back from Ubuntu. -- ~R~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. -- Nikita Khrushchev

Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 21:23 schrieb Roger Haxton:

On Tuesday March 7 2006 13:26, Gil Weber wrote:

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On Tue March 7 2006 2:09 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

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Well my Firefox does play (most) Flash animations. However, when I tried these 3 sites I was alerted with messages to upgrade Flash Player.

Message read: "Express Install is not supported by this version of Flash Player. To upgrade, please visit Flash Player download center."

So I went to the download center and the version that's being offered is 7,0,61,0 (November 2005).

That is the version I'm currently using! So I'm stumped why it's prompting me to upgrade when I have the most current version installed. At least I think so.

I checked about:plugins and found the following:

Shockwave Flash 7.0 r61

and below that another Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25.

So I'm wondering if maybe I have a conflict? Should I delete 7.0 r25 and, if yes, how do I delete it from the installed plugins?

Thanks! Gil

Mine didn't lock up my browser, but I have noticed sites that do lock up my browser if they have a lot of flash there. Can't tell you any off the top of my head at the moment.

The sites that Kai gave as examples all use flashplayer 8 which is not available for linux yet. Therefore, none of them work currently.

I do notice that Firefox is very slow on my machine especially when flash is involved. I had the same problem with Ubuntu and the solution there was to scrap the distro provided Firefox and load the one directly from Mozilla. This seemed to make the browser run much faster on Ubuntu. Haven't tried that on SuSE now that I've moved my laptop back from Ubuntu.

I just got blank pages... Oh, wait a minute, I have a flash blocker which disables flash... 99% of the flash I see are adverts that overlay what I went to the site for in the first place, so I just disable it by default now... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

On Tue March 7 2006 4:28 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Shockwave Flash 7.0 r61

and below that another Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25.

So I'm wondering if maybe I have a conflict? Should I delete 7.0 r25 and, if yes, how do I delete it from the installed plugins?

It shouldn't cause a conflict as firefox normally just uses the first plugin it finds. But it may be using the older one, so yes, I would uninstall it if I were you.

I have: File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 and http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/ (click on the wonder pets) worked for me. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

The Adobe acrobat documents dont open in Firefox , even after i have linked the nppdf.so to the firefox plugins directory ( this i did as per instrcutions frm the Firefox website) ANy pointers in this regard Digz On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 06:20 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 00:25, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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On Tue March 7 2006 4:28 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Shockwave Flash 7.0 r61

and below that another Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25.

So I'm wondering if maybe I have a conflict? Should I delete 7.0 r25 and, if yes, how do I delete it from the installed plugins?

It shouldn't cause a conflict as firefox normally just uses the first plugin it finds. But it may be using the older one, so yes, I would uninstall it if I were you.

I have: File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

and http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/ (click on the wonder pets) worked for me. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Well Guys, When I saw this I had to laugh out loud!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

Hope you see what I saw, (tip when you run out of idea's steal someone elses...)

Chadley

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On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 07:17 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:08, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:

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The Adobe acrobat documents dont open in Firefox , even after i have linked the nppdf.so to the firefox plugins directory ( this i did as per instrcutions frm the Firefox website)

ANy pointers in this regard Digz

I don't know that this is what you've done, but just in case: You can't make these kinds of changes with Firefox running. Also, it used to be the case in earlier versions that you had to delete the file ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat for plug-in changes to take effect. This caused Mozilla and later Firefox to re-register the installed plug-ins.

SUSE 10 installs a plugin called something like dragonegg. It is the culprit. Remove the package. To see the name, in the browser go to about:plugins and look for a name like that, and then remove the rpm. As I have already done this I do not have the exact name handy. After this, PDFs work as expected. I did not have to play with links. Just install acrobat and the reader plugin should be available. After removing the offending package mentioned earlier. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 07:17 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:08, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:

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The Adobe acrobat documents dont open in Firefox , even after i have linked the nppdf.so to the firefox plugins directory ( this i did as per instrcutions frm the Firefox website)

ANy pointers in this regard Digz

I don't know that this is what you've done, but just in case: You can't make these kinds of changes with Firefox running. Also, it used to be the case in earlier versions that you had to delete the file ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat for plug-in changes to take effect. This caused Mozilla and later Firefox to re-register the installed plug-ins.

regards,

Carl

BINGO , i first closed firefox started again ,but no use , i deleted pluginreg.dat ...and Adobe-7.0 is now opening PDFs... btw...the Dragon something plugin was not there in my firefox. so i think it was pluginreg.dat which was the culprit -- Thanks and Regards Digvijoy Chatterjee Please Visit http://indra/LiMS and start your Linux Journey **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:

The Adobe acrobat documents dont open in Firefox , even after i have linked the nppdf.so to the firefox plugins directory ( this i did as per instrcutions frm the Firefox website)

ANy pointers in this regard Digz

I had this same problem (see my post from yesterday SUSE 10- Firefox Plug-Ins Broken). None of my plug-ins that I tested were working (acroread, flash, etc.). A check of about:plugins showed that all of my plugins except the default plugin (libnullplugin.so) were enabled. I resolved the problem by disabling the acroread plug-in and closing firefox. I then (for the second time) re-installed the acroread plug-in per the instructions here: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-linux.html#install-acroread When I was re-installing the plug-in, it complained that it was already installed and asked if I wanted to install it anyway. I chose to install it anyway. I then opened up firefox, enabled the pdf plugin, closed firefox, re-booted my computer and now all of my plug-ins seem to work. Very strange, but it worked for me. Hope this helps. Mike