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 ...

At the moment? Only the unix print plugin that comes standard with Mozilla 1.8a. I don't even have Flash installed right now, as I suspect it of frequently crashing my browser.

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