[SOLVED] Flash stopped working after updating Firefox

André0991 · 03-08-2014, 06:07 PM

I had to update Firefox in Slackware 14.1 in order to use this add-on.

I followed these instructions (nothing more than extracting the package in /opt/ and making a symbolic link). To be honest, I don't know if there is a more elegant or organized way of doing this. When I started Firefox again, all my previous tabs were present. I found it strange, but looking at the about option, I'm in fact with Firefox 27.

However, after that, flash stopped working. The version of Adobe's site and the slackbuild are the same, so I don't know what do to. I've tried to put libflashplayer.so in some places (according to some pages), but it didn't work.

/usr/lib64/firefox-24.3.0, as you can see, is named with the older version. I don't know if this affects something.

Thanks.

guanx · 03-08-2014, 06:38 PM

Did you try to used the firefox package from slackware64-current?

André0991 · 03-08-2014, 06:52 PM

No, I didn't.

Should I first remove my current Firefox here?

Thanks.

guanx · 03-08-2014, 10:30 PM

Remove the firefox in /opt, then use upgradepkg.

genss · 03-08-2014, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by André0991

When I started Firefox again, all my previous tabs were present. I found it strange, but looking at the about option, I'm in fact with Firefox 27.

However, after that, flash stopped working. The version of Adobe's site and the slackbuild are the same, so I don't know what do to. I've tried to put libflashplayer.so in some places (according to some pages), but it didn't work.

your firefox profile is in ~/.mozzila/ so it is independent of version

i got it in ~/.mozzila/plugins/
but that is for a single user

edit:
from the alien slackbuild

Code:

# Install the plugin to the mozilla plugins dir and fix library file attributes:
mkdir -p usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/mozilla/plugins
mv libflashplayer.so usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/mozilla/plugins/

re/installing the package should work if you don't want to do it manually

tup · 03-08-2014, 11:52 PM

hi André0991,

I am the author of that post.

In Firefox 27 plugin directory is '/firefox/browser/plugins' and you have to copy 'libflashplayer.so' to that directory.

So in your case to '/opt/firefox/browser/plugins'. Just restart the browser if flash player is not working even after copying 'libflashplayer.so'.

Actually it was an old post and I think I must edit it to avoid the confusion.

happy slacking André0991

André0991 · 03-09-2014, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tup

hi André0991,

I am the author of that post.

In Firefox 27 plugin directory is '/firefox/browser/plugins' and you have to copy 'libflashplayer.so' to that directory.

So in your case to '/opt/firefox/browser/plugins'. Just restart the browser if flash player is not working even after copying 'libflashplayer.so'.

Actually it was an old post and I think I must edit it to avoid the confusion.

happy slacking André0991

Right. Flash is working now, thanks

genss and guanx: Thanks, next time I will install it from current.
PS: I had libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/, but it didn't work, I don't know why.

tup · 03-09-2014, 04:28 AM

André0991

my pleasure