shockwave on Firefox

murray_linux · 05-01-2004, 06:14 PM

Hi folks,

I'm trying to play Q*Bert online, on this webpage http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/qbert.htm

Works fine on the windows box, but on linux, i get the error,

"This page contains information of a type (application/x-director) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-In.

Click OK to download the Plug-in."

I've installed Shockwave.

games like this:

http://www.arcadepod.com/games/play.php?id=bubble2

work. (though incredibly slow)

any thoughts?

thanks!

Murray

ToniT · 05-01-2004, 06:38 PM

Macromedia stuff is proprietary and non-free (and therefore: worthless).

They have a flash plugin implementation for linux (Is it slow? They made it, nobody can fix it), but no shockwave plugin. The second link uses flash, the first one shockwave.

beejayzed · 05-01-2004, 08:00 PM

There is no shokwave plugin. Only a flash player one.

Kovacs · 05-01-2004, 08:53 PM

To try and speed up flash in firefox, try adding this to your firefox startup script:

export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

murray_linux · 05-01-2004, 09:16 PM

oh ok. sorry for the confusion guys, thanks for the clarification. I added that line of code to firefox, we'll see if that speeds things up a bit.

Thanks!

Murray

Ninja Cow · 05-02-2004, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kovacs
To try and speed up flash in firefox, try adding this to your firefox startup script:

export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

I've been looking for a fix for this. Thank you Kovacs!!!

Heh, and I *just* went back to Opera as well. Guess I'll change over again. Long live Firefox!

beejayzed · 05-03-2004, 02:43 PM

Sign the pettion for shokwave: http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxswp/

murray_linux · 05-03-2004, 03:59 PM

done.