It does. It interfaces only with the libpepflashplayer.so library which is wrapped back to FireFox using libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so. All versions of flash (Adobe or Google) still use libhal.so for DRM.

Firefox Adobe Flash Add-on: Blocked Add-ons

In order to force the flash player with firefox instead of html5 you have to set "about:config/media.webm.enabled" to false. You also can't seem to make the flashplayer "always active" on firefox by toggling "about:config/plug.state.flash"

Because of firefox's statement I've concentrated on chrome. Hulu works fine with pepperflash and chrome but crashes with firefox and adobe flash 11.202.481.

I tried most of the suggestions here to get Amazon videos to stream. Amazon loads the flash player (pepperflash) and displays the progress gauge and the volume control but no video or audio. The progress gauge moves periodically showing how many minutes were viewed and how many remaining.

There is still the possibility this is a hardware issue with my laptop. I'm getting a different laptop this week so I'll try all your suggestions again.. Thanks for the help!

Unfortunately, that's going to be just talk for a long time.

Using the hal packages from 13.37 has worked for me in the past - you will need to start the hal service (/etc/rc.d/rc.hald) then restart flash - this is because the hal version of the flash renderer is required for the DRM to work.

PACKAGE NAME: hal-0.5.14-i486-3.txz
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./slackware/l
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 464 K
PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 2430 K
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
hal: hal (The HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer)
hal:
hal: HAL is a piece of software that provides a view of the various
hal: hardware attached to a system. HAL keeps detailed metadata for each
hal: piece of hardware and provides hooks so that system and desktop
hal: software can react to changes in the hardware configuration (such as
hal: the insertion of a DVD, or a USB flash memory stick).
hal:
hal: For more info, see: http://hal.freedesktop.org/
hal:

PACKAGE NAME: hal-info-20091130-noarch-1.txz
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./slackware/l
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 48 K
PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 400 K
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
hal-info: hal-info (device information for HAL)
hal-info:
hal-info: The hal-info package contains device information for HAL, a Hardware
hal-info: Abstraction Layer.
hal-info:
hal-info: For more info, see: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
hal-info: