flash not working on real firefox. but working on iceweasal and epiphany
Flash is not working the the browser which I which to use, 'real' firefox, I wish to use firefox to sychcronise browsing with other devices.
I have epiphany and iceweasal also installed and flash is working having tested both on the bbc and if I check which version of flash i have installed at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html it says 11.1.102.62 (the lastest version) for both. I installed flash using 'flashplugin-nonfree' This is on debian squeeze 64bit (Linux 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 (64-bit)) using gnome and I have installed real firefox in /opt using the instructions given here http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=62113 I understand that iceweasal and firefox are very similar and i tried to symlink iceweasal plugins to /opt/firefox/plugins but this seemed not to work. Does anyone have any ideas I can get flash work have installed firefox in this manner? Thanks Tony |
Iceweasel's plugins live in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Did you try just copying the plugin files to /opt/firefox/plugins?
Also, where is Firefox pointing in Edit-->Preferences-->Applications for Flash? |
It should just work.
See Tech Patterns :: Switching from Debian Iceweasel to Firefox, permanently : http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html try just symlinking the plugins: Quote:
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I also took a look at iceweasal's plugins and I noticed that it's flash plugin is pointing to HOME/.mozilla/plugins so I also tried symlinking and copying this to /opt/firefox/plugins and I still get the same result, no flash and firefox reports that no plugins are installed. Any other ideas? Thanks Tony |
My flashplugin-nonfree sits in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so. So I would take a look in there first to see if yours sits there also. My Antix install is pretty much pure Debian testing. This is a base AntiX install though.
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harry@biker:~$ inxi -r As a test just now I just downloaded Firefox 10.02 .tar.bz2 and extracted it. I opened my rox file manager as root and moved extracted firefox file into /opt. I run Iron browser and Iceape and Seamonkey 2.7.2 (sits in /home instead of /opt) I ran Firefox with gexec Code:
/opt/firefox/firefox Code:
about:plugins gxine starter plugin File: gxineplugin.so Version: will start external gxine media player for embedded media streams VLC Multimedia Plug-in File: libvlcplugin.so Version: Version 1.1.12 The Luggage, copyright 1996-2007 The VideoLAN Team http://www.videolan.org/ Shockwave Flash File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102 Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_26 File: libnpjp2.so Version: The next generation Java plug-in for Mozilla browsers. Xine Plugin File: xineplugin.so Version: Xine Plugin version 1.0.2, (c) The Xine Project. Windows Media Player / RealPlayer / QuickTime compatible. So I'm not sure why yours did not get picked up. No symlink or copying libflashplayer.so needed for this fresh install. I guess I'll make a launcher now for Fluxbox with my LXpanel for it since this hardrive has the room for it. Looks like it has a self updater in Help like Seamonkey does. |
Maybe the problem is because I am using squeeze rather than sid or perhaps 64 bit rather than 32bit.
Any thoughts? thanks Tony |
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Did you download the 64bit Firefox as well as install flashplugin-nonfree from the Debian repos? If you did it should work. |
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So I have replaced my 32 bit firefox with the 64 bit, nightly build of firefox and flash is now working. However, not sure how secure the nightly build is, which was another reason for trying to use an up-to-date and stable version of firefox. Anyway, thanks for all you help Tony |
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