Comments on: Adobe Flash on Firefox 3 Beta

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:10:38 +0000

For anyone following this thread, Lucas Malor on Mozilla forums provided the solution:

Try with a clean profile or to install it manually, if you don’t:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:07:10 +0000

@ m_gol – Wow… this is “spooky”. I was reading this very post when you commented!! http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=646033

By: m_gol

m_gol — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:03:43 +0000

I asked at mozilla forum and I got a very simple answer – just to go to Adobe site, download *.tar.gz script and install it manually. Now it really works!

By: m_gol

m_gol — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:51:00 +0000

Maybe anyone knows just how to find a place where Fx looks for Flash? I could find it on my own – now I cannot use Flash at all with Fx3 and it is a “little” disturbing…

By: m_gol

m_gol — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:20:10 +0000

No, I have it installed in standard location. File:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
exists. I made symb. links to this file (which is, also, sl to /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin) in the following locations:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins
but it changed nothing.

Shouldn’t I do sth with stuff in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree? I have no other idea.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:51:32 +0000

@m_gol – It works for me.
I could be that flash is installed in a different location?
Maybe you don’t have it installed in the path used by the post? Try changing the actual path to the location on your system.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:30:08 +0000

@m-gol – Yes you are totally correct!

I was just trying to get across to any readers that because Firefox 3 is still in Beta, that there are going to be issues. That’s the only reason why I quoted it. I will try the upgraded later and see if I have the same issue with Flash (I probably will). And then we can see how we are able to fix this.

Thanks!

By: m_gol

m_gol — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:23:30 +0000

But flash is a plugin, not an extension…

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:15:41 +0000

@m_gol – Let me see what I can find. This was just release yesterday (Apr. 02) so I have not installed it yet.

From:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/

“..Extensions installed under previous versions of Firefox may be incompatible and/or require updates to work with Firefox 3 Beta 5. Please report any issues to the maintainer of the extension.
When you install Firefox 3 Beta 5 all of your Extensions and Themes will be disabled until Firefox 3 Beta 5 determines that either a) they are compatible with the Firefox 3 Beta 5 release or b) there are newer versions available that are compatible…”

By: m_gol

m_gol — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:09:00 +0000

How to make it in Fx3b5? Changing “firefox-3.0b3″ to “firefox-3.0b5″ doesn’t work…