I'm trying to get Shockwave (actual Shockwave, not Flash) working in Firefox 3.6 series on (L)Ubuntu 10.04. (And for that matter I'll also want Authorware. Yes, I need these things.)
I've followed the instructions here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave
but no joy - when I test my installation here
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
I get an empty space where the shockwave animation should be. Looking at top, firefox.exe (the windows binary) doesn't seem to start, and I've a feeling it should.
The end of my /etc/mozpluggerrc is
Code:
# Winwoes plugins via Windows fx version
# as explained at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave
application/x-director: aam,dir,dcr,dxr,cst,cct,cxt,w3d,fgd,swa: Macromedia Director file
swallow(firefox.exe) fill stream: wine "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe" -chrome "$file"
I changed to the Unix path myself, it didn't work with the Windows path either.
I've been able to load other mozplugger things (like loading Openoffice in the browser for a Word Document), so that seems fine.
The Windows version of Firefox
does play Shockwave, but it's ugly as sin, I'd rather not be depending on wine for the web browser, and worst I can't get Java installed in wine - I really want one browser with Flash, Shockwave, Authorware, and Java support (see
this thread for the background).
I've heard Crossover can do it, but have yet to try this.
Any suggestions on how I can get Shockwave working in the Linux version of Firefox? Changing distros
is an option, if anyone has success stories from a different distro.
