flash not working in Firefox 3... Fedora 9 KDE 4
 

according to yum flash is installed fine...

I read somewhere that it might not work if firefox is installed in some weird location but it seems to fine where it is. When I do about:plugins flash doesn't show up on the list. I ran /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and got no error messages. I am stumped, whats the problem? Thanks in advance.

Flash won't run on a 64bit machine until you put it into a 32bit virtual machine: you'll need either ia32 or linux32 libraries and, for sure, run firefox over 32 bit, not 64!!

That's adobe's (internal) problem and the reason why I nearly hate them and I don't work with Flash: I'm a webdesigner, but this is a very nasty compatibility issue adobe's not going to correct.

You can try installing flock (not for the entire system, just for your user) and copying flash libraries to its plugin directory. That is my solution to watch youtube on my amd64.

emi

Try googling Nspluginwrapper ,lets you run x86 plugins on a x86_64 machine.
Works for me!
Regards
The trooper.

Thanks man, works great!

(edit) Logging in today flash doesn't seem to be working anymore. It is still installed but doesn't show up when I about:plugins. I don't think I did anything, maybe firefox updated by itself, I am not sure. The nspluginwrapper is still working, or at least shows up on the about:plugins. Any help would be great.

Ok I am having problems trying to fix this, I tried to remove the flash plugin and re-install it but I am having some problems doing it. I am obviously doing something wrong:

nspluginwrapper is working fine, but flash isn't showing up as being installed. Any help would be great.

I am a little confused as to how you are doing things....
To start you were using the package manager:

And now it would appear you are trying to install an RPM package manually:

Have you downloaded the package separately from the package manager?
Maybe this where the confusion is?
Try:

To see if the package is installed.
I would usually try to use the package manager for this sort of task.
Post if you need more help.
Regards.
The trooper

Initially I tried to install the flash rpm from adobe manually with the rpm command, but that didn't work. Later I found out that I needed nspluginwrapper to make flash work with x86_64 and after I installed that manually with rpm's I think it didn't work at that point, and then I think I tried to use yum to install everything. I did something right and it actually worked for a day or so.

Now, nspluginwrapper shows up as a plugin but flash doesn't.

Not sure what the problem was, I was just trying to remove everything and install it again. Help would be greatly appreciated.

This tells you that the package is installed.
Have you tried to remove it with Yum?
When i did this with Debian,i installed ia-32libs-gtk and nspluginwrapper via the package manager.
Then i installed the flash-plugin with the package manager.

It may be worth removing nspluginwrapper as well,and start again just using Fedora's package manager.
I think Livna is the multimedia repository,make that accessible to yum.
To sum up remove nspluginwrapper, and the flash plugin(rpm or yum)
Enable the Livna repository.
Install ia-32libs-gtk and nspluginwrapper with yum
Then install the flash plugin with yum.
It is generally good practice to use the package management system where possible.Only manually install packages if they are not available through a repository or if you need or want to compile from source.

Post how you get on.
Regards.
The trooper

I added the livna repository but I can't find ia-32libs-gtk anywhere. I removed the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper and added them but flash is still a no go.

Did some googling and found the following howto specifically for Fedora:

http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/how.../flash64.shtml

One more thought,Fedora 6 is quite old now so there will be a lot less packages available than for the current distribution.
It may be an idea to update to the latest version.
Sorry i can't be of more help!
Regards.
The trooper.

Thanks for your help! I finally figured out what was wrong. I am not sure what auto-updated, either firefox or fedora, but it was autoupdating nspluginwrapper to the "newer" and "unstable" 1.1 version, which screwed everything up. Hopefully I can prevent this in the future. I don't know why it updates to a development snapshot but oh well, at least now I know... on to fixing audio in flash now! Thanks for the help.

Glad to hear you got it sorted in the end!
Regards.
The trooper.