Flash Player installed but unable to see Flash-files

Martin Mielke

9 Jun 2004 9 Jun '04

11:31

Hi all, according to 'about:plugins' on my Mozilla 1.7x, the Flash Player is installed: --- Shockwave Flash File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes --- but when I want to see a webpage with a Flash animation on it, Mozilla complaints with: --- The file "filename.swf" is of type application/x-shockwave-flash, and Mozilla does not know how to handle this type of file located at: http://.... ... --- What am I doing wrong? TIA, Martin

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BandiPat

9 Jun 9 Jun

13:56

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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 07:31 am, Martin Mielke wrote:

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Hi all,

according to 'about:plugins' on my Mozilla 1.7x, the Flash Player is installed: [...]

but when I want to see a webpage with a Flash animation on it, Mozilla complaints with:

--- The file "filename.swf" is of type application/x-shockwave-flash, and Mozilla does not know how to handle this type of file located at:

http://....

... ---

What am I doing wrong?

TIA, Martin ================

Martin, Check your Mozilla plugins directory and make sure the Flash plugins are links and not the actual plugin. Mozilla & Firefox always seems to work better, I've found, with links. Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Martin Mielke

14:45

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Hi, BandiPat wrote: [ snip ]

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Martin,

Check your Mozilla plugins directory and make sure the Flash plugins are links and not the actual plugin. Mozilla & Firefox always seems to work better, I've found, with links.

Regards, Lee

Hi, I created symlinks to the Flash plugins but it doesn't help either... Oddly I can download the .swf and play it offline... :-/ Ideas? Martin

Patrick Shanahan

19:53

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* Martin Mielke [06-09-04 10:10]:

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I created symlinks to the Flash plugins but it doesn't help either... Oddly I can download the .swf and play it offline... :-/

Ideas?

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator - Helper Applications Make an entry for .swf -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

BandiPat

10 Jun 10 Jun

00:56

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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 03:53 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Martin Mielke [06-09-04 10:10]:

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I created symlinks to the Flash plugins but it doesn't help either... Oddly I can download the .swf and play it offline... :-/

Ideas?

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator - Helper Applications

Make an entry for .swf

-- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos ===========

Aha, just thought of this too! Actually the entry for flash files is already there, but you have to tell them to work on .swf files! One I think might be, but the other was/is something different and when I added the .swf to the first one, I believe, it worked correctly. It will be under "File Associations". So Patrick is on the right track. Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Patrick Shanahan

01:25

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* BandiPat [06-09-04 19:56]:

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Aha, just thought of this too! Actually the entry for flash files is already there, but you have to tell them to work on .swf files! One I think might be, but the other was/is something different and when I added the .swf to the first one, I believe, it worked correctly. It will be under "File Associations".

This must be dependent on version. I have 1.6 currently. I find no configuration for 'File Associations' and I know that it has been there in netscrape. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

BandiPat

01:32

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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 09:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* BandiPat [06-09-04 19:56]:

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Aha, just thought of this too! Actually the entry for flash files is already there, but you have to tell them to work on .swf files! One I think might be, but the other was/is something different and when I added the .swf to the first one, I believe, it worked correctly. It will be under "File Associations".

This must be dependent on version. I have 1.6 currently. I find no configuration for 'File Associations' and I know that it has been there in netscrape. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos ===========

Sorry, I'm thinking of Konqueror, not Mozilla, it just worked in Moz & Firefox for me. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Anders Johansson

01:34

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On Thursday 10 June 2004 03.25, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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This must be dependent on version. I have 1.6 currently. I find no configuration for 'File Associations' and I know that it has been there in netscrape.

Preferences->Helper Applications but you shouldn't have to. The plugin should set its mime type settings automagically

mikus＠bga.com

01:17

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:53:34 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Martin Mielke [06-09-04 10:10]:

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I created symlinks to the Flash plugins but it doesn't help either... Oddly I can download the .swf and play it offline... :-/

Ideas?

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator - Helper Applications

Make an entry for .swf

I'm not familiar with the support of plugins on Linux, but on another platform the two function differently: Helper Applications: - require an explicit entry (as indicated above) - are launched *after* the datafile is downloaded - open a separate window for their output Plugins: - register themselves - are launched before the datafile is downloaded - reuse part/all of the Navigator window mikus

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