Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

[David Vincent]

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NoOp wrote:
> On 01/28/2008 02:10 PM, David Vincent wrote:
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>> Alex Janssen wrote:
>>> David Vincent said the following on 01/26/2008 12:39 PM:
>>>> Doesn't look like you need to.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-firefox-3-beta-2-in-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon.html
>>>>
>>>> - -d
>>>>   
>>> Hey!  Thanks.  I'll do it.
>> well i did this on my laptop.  flash is still a problem.
>>
>> argh.
>>
>> back to 2.0.0.11.
>>
>> - -d
> 
> Do you have libflashplayer.so in your /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins
> directory? Do you have a .mozilla/plugins directory/folder?
> 
> If not, do this:
> 
> 1. From Nautilus (file browser) do a Ctrl-h to view you hidden folders.
> Go to .mozilla & right-click then 'Create Folder' - create 'plugins'.
> 
> 2. Download the flash .tar.gz from
> <http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BONRN>
> unpack the .tz (you can do this by double-clicking the file in
> Nautilus), it will create a directory/folder called
> 'install_flash_player_9_linux'.
> 
> Close Firefox.
> 
> Use Nautilus to go to that directory & copy the libflashplayer.so file
> to the /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins directory.
> 
> 3. If you've tried to install flashplugin-nonfree from Synaptic and/or
> apt-get, purge it:
> 
> sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> There are serious problems with flashplugin-nonfree - it shows up as
> installed in Synaptic, but isn't actuall installed. Ref:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890
> 
> 4. Restart Firefox & browse to http://adobe.com. You should then see the
> flash playing on the site.
> 
> If you'd like the ability to turn flash of & on at will, install the
> Mozilla PrefBar:
> http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
> Afterwards, select 'customize' on the prefbar & add 'Flash' and
> KillFlash to the toolbar. You can then tic the Flash box to turn flash
> on, and un-tic it to turn it off.

Thanks NoOp.  I did have to reinstall Flash before sites recognized it.
  It was installed to my home folder.  Same problem with the menus
behind the swf though.

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