how to install macromedia shockwave player for Firefox

izquierdista · 06-01-2005, 08:05 AM

How do I install macromedia shockwave player so that I can use it with the Firefox browser? I tried pressing on the download plugin button that comes out whenever it cant find an appropriate plugin. After this comes out I press the install manually button but it only takes me to the shockwave website.

bullwinkle · 06-01-2005, 09:28 AM

tools>extensions>get more extensions
search for flash player.......it will install on its own,restart firefox to use it

madluther · 06-01-2005, 10:00 AM

Macromedia Flash player is available for linux , but Macromedia Shockwave player is not, only Windows and Mac O/S's are supported.

craigevil · 06-01-2005, 10:22 AM

"How do I install Macromedia Flash Player on Linux?
On Linux, download Macromedia Flash Player 7. Once downloaded, copy libflashplayer.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and flashplayer.xpt to your Mozilla components directory."
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/fla...#install-linux

Like madluther already said there is NO Shockwave for Linux.

Depending on your distro it can be as simple as apt-get install flash.

ronin42 · 06-03-2005, 07:05 PM

I have tried the extension method and the direct install method and the ln -s method. I stil get problems on certain sites with different browsers. When viewing a certain page with FF I get a notice to download flash player, when using Mozilla I see the image.
When I go to the test site I see no animation either with Mozilla or Firefox, Konqueror does show the test page for flash.
Could this be the way the page is written?

ronin42

Brian1 · 06-03-2005, 07:29 PM

What you need to get is an addtional file called mozilla-swfdec. It is a plugin also. Install that plus the macromedia player plugin in your plugins folder and that should take car of it.

Brian1