Fedora 2 Mozilla flash/java not working
Hi,
Im ALMOST all there with fedora! one last problem that i hope someone can help with, and hopefully its just a real quick answer. heres what i did. After installing fedora 2, when i bring up the browser, everything works EXCEPT flash animations, and some java menus. what it would do is show a box where the animation should go, with a little icon in the middle. So figuring it needed the plug-in, i went to the netscape page and dl'd it and installed it. now same thing happens only not the little icon. so i think its there, but just wrong. so i think that either: a) there is a settting smoewhere in the browser to say "show flash/java images" or b) I installed something wrong? what was i suppose to do, and how can i fix it? thanks --Karl |
As far as I know, there's no option to disable Flash in Mozilla. Java *can* be disabled, I'm not sure if it's disabled by default. To enable it: go to Edit -> Preferences, click on 'Advanced'.
To check if the plug-ins are installed correctly, go to Help -> About Plugins... If you don't see the Flash player and Java VM there, they aren't installed correctly. How you are supposed to install Flash: download the plugin from macromedia.com, unpack the tar file, and run the installer script. |
I have the following 2 in:
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes but its not showing shockwave (.swf files), it looks like it wants to, but it doesnt. doenst explain why i cant see some java menus are there any other "manditory" plugins i should have? (IE: let me know what YOU have installed) |
I really have no clue what could be wrong then with the Flash files ...
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To make flash player work in Mozilla you need to have these library's in your plugins folder.
flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so In mandrake they are at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins For java to work you need libjavaplugin_oji.so shockwave flash player http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp |
hmm. it worked... sortof... I did what you said and it worked!
bu t i think i found a bug.. maybe you can check this out and see if it does ti on yours (or anyone using fedora core 2 ) if you go to: http://www.ballselector.com/demo.htm youll see some flash banners. now go to: https://www.leaguetournaments.com there should be a flash on the right side there, but it just shows blank the only difference is one is an HTTPS page, and the other is a HTTP page. is it possible the flash doesnt work on secure pages? this does work using internet explorer and netscape on windows thanks --Karl |
I opened that page in konqueror, mozilla, and firefox.
The page did not render correctly. The flash object did not play. I think that some web page designers write HTML for the page to be IE specific. |
no, i wrote the page.
it has to do with the https: if i make it http, it works fine. and it works fine in windows with netscape and IE. for some reason it looks like flash doesnt render when its on a secure page. (the first example i showed you had the same flash animation as is suppose to be in the https version) im installing fedora 3 now, ill see if it works there. can someone try it with regular redhat and see if it renders there? |
It does not has to do with https or not, i have checked a couple of http and flash movie does not render (www.diablesdelclot.com). Here there should be an animation, but does not show up, and it's not https. I guess it has to do with some specific animations that would only work under windows player :(
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