Firefox 3.5.2 and Adobe Flash
 

Hi

I am using mepis 8 and everything is 32bit. Until recently I was using Firefox 3.0 and the flash player worked fine. However I recently upgraded a lot of my software though the packager manager including Firefox 3.5.2 and now Adobe Flash Player will not work. I have installed adobe flash player both through the package manager and when that did not work also from the Adobe website (Ubuntu 8.04.deb file.) Neither will work.

I have installed the libflashplayer.so file in all the appropriate plugin directories as per the instructions. I have even tried Konqueror but again flash does not work.

In the Plugin section of Firefox there is a plugin for Shockwave flash 10.0.r32 and it is enabled. Inserting about:plugins in task bar of the browser displays details of plugins for mplayer, Quicktime and Realplayer but nothing about Adobe flash.

I have now exhausted all my ideas. Can anyone think of anything else I can try?


grabro

I am having a similar problem. I am running 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 KDE on my desktop. I installed the libflashplayer.so filed into the /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins directory, but flash still does not work with firefox 3.5 and does not come up under the list of plugins. Anyone have any suggestions?

Nevermind, how careless of me. I clicked on the link for 32-bit flash instead of 64. Everything works now.

I am running FF 3.5.2 on ubuntu 8.04.3 with plug-in Shockwave Flash 9.0 r246. Adobe About and Adobe Version Test say it is OK.

I didn't do anything special to install it -- it came along with the upgrade from FF 3.0.13.

Apparently the latest version for all OSes and supported browsers is 10.0.32.18. Mmm ... should I upgrade or follow the "Thou shalt not touch working systems" law?

EDIT:

about:plugins lists Shockwave Flash 9.0 r246