[opensuse] Shockwave Flash v10 plug-in not functioning in Firefox 3.0.10
Folks, I'm running Suse 11.1 with Firefox 3.0.10 and the Adobe Shockwave Flash browser plug-in 10.0 r22 87 installed. While the standalone v10 Flash player works just fine with .swf files, the browser plug-in has ceased to work within Firefox (not sure exactly which combination of browser and plug-in versions last worked correctly, sorry). The plug-in is surely enabled in Firefox, but when I hit an embedded SWF all I see is a beige box where the Flash animation is supposed to appear (e.g., on YouTube). The object in the browser is not left or right-clickable at all and just sits there, dead. I've de-installed and re-installed the latest versions of both Firefox and Flash, but to no avail. I've also made sure that all the other plug-ins and extensions are not loaded at the moment in case there's a potential hidden conflict somewhere. Any thoughts or pointers to fixes would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance... //ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *TED MARKOWITZ* WWW: www.unh-ececs.net/tjm http://www.unh-ececs.net/tjm email: tmarkowitz@newhaven.edu phone: 1-203-984-6565 fax: 1-203-655-2400 *Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Tagliatela School of Engineering University of New Haven West Haven, CT 06516 * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:42:38 pm Ted Markowitz wrote:
Folks,
I'm running Suse 11.1 with Firefox 3.0.10 and the Adobe Shockwave Flash browser plug-in 10.0 r22 87 installed. While the standalone v10 Flash player works just fine with .swf files, the browser plug-in has ceased to work within Firefox (not sure exactly which combination of browser and plug-in versions last worked correctly, sorry). The plug-in is surely enabled in Firefox, but when I hit an embedded SWF all I see is a beige box where the Flash animation is supposed to appear (e.g., on YouTube). The object in the browser is not left or right-clickable at all and just sits there, dead. I've de-installed and re-installed the latest versions of both Firefox and Flash, but to no avail. I've also made sure that all the other plug-ins and extensions are not loaded at the moment in case there's a potential hidden conflict somewhere. Any thoughts or pointers to fixes would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
Try to type "about:plugins" in Location field to see which version is used, as well as nspluginwrapper presence. Also check /usr/lib/browser-plugins for the libflash version that is installed, the same for /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, if you use 64 bit system. On 64 bit systems you can have both, 64 bit version used directly and 32 used with nspluginwrapper, that of course can produce problem. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko, Just to close the loop on this one for the time being: I de-installed Flash v10 r22 and downgraded back to v9 r159 (the most recent v9 I could find). This version works with Firefox 3.0.10 just fine. Not sure what's going on here, but there's no question that v10 does not work on my system as a Firefox plug-in, even though the v10 flashplayer can play .swf files perfectly well. Very strange... //ted Rajko M. wrote the following on 05/28/2009 07:40 PM:
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:42:38 pm Ted Markowitz wrote:
Folks,
I'm running Suse 11.1 with Firefox 3.0.10 and the Adobe Shockwave Flash browser plug-in 10.0 r22 87 installed. While the standalone v10 Flash player works just fine with .swf files, the browser plug-in has ceased to work within Firefox (not sure exactly which combination of browser and plug-in versions last worked correctly, sorry). The plug-in is surely enabled in Firefox, but when I hit an embedded SWF all I see is a beige box where the Flash animation is supposed to appear (e.g., on YouTube). The object in the browser is not left or right-clickable at all and just sits there, dead. I've de-installed and re-installed the latest versions of both Firefox and Flash, but to no avail. I've also made sure that all the other plug-ins and extensions are not loaded at the moment in case there's a potential hidden conflict somewhere. Any thoughts or pointers to fixes would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
Try to type "about:plugins" in Location field to see which version is used, as well as nspluginwrapper presence.
Also check /usr/lib/browser-plugins for the libflash version that is installed, the same for /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, if you use 64 bit system. On 64 bit systems you can have both, 64 bit version used directly and 32 used with nspluginwrapper, that of course can produce problem.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *TED MARKOWITZ* WWW: www.unh-ececs.net/tjm http://www.unh-ececs.net/tjm email: tmarkowitz@newhaven.edu phone: 1-203-984-6565 fax: 1-203-655-2400 *Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Tagliatela School of Engineering University of New Haven West Haven, CT 06516 * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
... Also check /usr/lib/browser-plugins for the libflash version that is installed, the same for /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, if you use 64 bit system. On 64 bit systems you can have both, 64 bit version used directly and 32 used with nspluginwrapper, that of course can produce problem.
Does it follow that if one is running a 64 bit system (x86_64 in my case), that I should remove the 32 bit version as unneeded, if I have the one in /usr/lib64? TIA. Dan PS I am experiencing the same problem since installing FF3.0.10 and copying the right lib to the /usr/lib64 tree (as seen elsewhere, I think on this forum.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 29 May 2009 03:26:09 pm Dan Goodman wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
... Also check /usr/lib/browser-plugins for the libflash version that is installed, the same for /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, if you use 64 bit system. On 64 bit systems you can have both, 64 bit version used directly and 32 used with nspluginwrapper, that of course can produce problem.
Does it follow that if one is running a 64 bit system (x86_64 in my case), that I should remove the 32 bit version as unneeded, if I have the one in /usr/lib64?
TIA.
Dan
PS I am experiencing the same problem since installing FF3.0.10 and copying the right lib to the /usr/lib64 tree (as seen elsewhere, I think on this forum.)
The basic is that you can have 64 bit libflash... or 32 bit with nspluginwrapper, not both. I picked that up somewhere on mozilla, but I can't find the link now. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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