firefox not playing flash
 

I just installed 14.1 on a 32 bit system. Downloaded flash 11 from Adobe and guess what? No play on youtube, that's where I tested it. All I get it is a black box that eventually goes away to white. Checking firefox it says that the plugin is installed, disabling it in firefox results in a "no plugin available" error on youtube, so the plugin is detected.

tj

install one of the packages from here and you should not have any more problems.

http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien...player-plugin/

Nope, same problem. No play.

Thius system had a Ubuntu install that I played with first and flash worked ok. So, its not the system.

tj

What version of Firefox? In recent versions all plugins are sandboxed and are allowed to run only when explicitly allowed. All plugins are disabled by default.

/home/user/.mozilla/plugins/ is where it goes

do a "locate libflashplayer.so" cd to that directory

"ls" to make sure it is there

then do a "cp libflashplayer.so /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/"

Since the OP is using 14.1 it is most likely Firefox 24.2.0 ESR.

Firefox version is 24.1

Plugin is in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Also, Tools->Addons->Plugins shows "Shockwave Flash 11,1,202,332" as always active.

If I disable flash and go to youtube I get a "no plugin" error. If I re-activate flash I just get a black block where the video would be and no error message.

tj

The current version for Slackware 14.1 is 24.2, so you should update that first to rule out a problem with the older version.
Your Flash version is the same that I use (on Firefox 24.2) and it is working fine here. You may want to try to start Firefox from the command-line to see if it prints out error-messages.

I have firefox 24.2 and flash Version: 11,2,202,327 and it works just fine here. I've had no issues with installing the flash package from AlienBob's repository. Maybe the version of flash that was installed from adobe's website is conflicting somehow. At least, that's the only thing I can think of.

Maybe you are missing a dependency for flash player? Check it with:
If this command results in no output, all dependencies are met and this is not causing the problem.

Does Firefox who that the gnash plugin is installed? If so then you will need to disable this so that the proprietary Adobe plugin will be used for embedded Flash.

Slackware does not come with Gnash, you have to separately build it.

Forget the system install and try this:

1) Simply download the version 26 from here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozi...efox/releases/
2) Unarchive it into your /home/username directory (your account directory.).
3) Go into ~/firefox/browser directory and create a "plugins" directory.
4) Drop your libflashplayer.so file inside this plugins directory.
5) Launch with: ~/firefox/firefox and it should just work.

Another possibility is one of the dependency libs permissions are not set correctly. Be sure to check those too.

I know the flash plugin from slackbuilds.org works, but have never tried Adobe's.

If youtube is all you need Flash for, may be you'll find that youtube-dl is even better. Personally, I'd recommend against using Adobe Flash, if only for security concerns: it is a trojan, straight up.

Ok, I install firefox 26.0
I install flashplayer from slackbuilds.org

STILL GET NOTHING BUT A BLACK SQUARE NO VIDEO!!!!
No plugin error. Just no video.

tj

Well, I now have Firefox 26.0 and the flashplayer from slackbuilds.org. Still nothing but a black box instead of a video playing.

tj

Well I now have Firefox 26.0 and the flashplayer from slackbuilds.org. But, still only a black rectangle and no video.

tj

Have you started Firefox from the commandline, so that you can see possible error-messages?

Thanks to TobiSGI the problem is now fixed. I took his advice (which I should have thought of myself, duh) and executed firefox from command line. Went to youtube and when I tried a video I got a continuous error about send/recv. I then did a search on the error and found a post on this site. It said that AMD 32 bit procs and VIA, which I have, had a problem with a missing a cpu flag (see2 ?) and said to check /proc/cpuinfo for it. If it was not there you had to back up to Flash 10 instead of 11. Well, I was missing the flag and I installed Flash 10.

Voila, flash now works.

Thanks to all who took the time and effort to see me through these trial and tribulations.

tj

Good detective work but I am sorry to hear your VIA processor (and other IA32s without SSE2) is no longer supported by Adobe's flash plugin for Linux.

Your choice of moving to 10.x (over 11.1) is probably smart since their last "extended support" 10.3.183.90 I believe includes more security fixes than their last 11.1 (11.1.102.63).

However, 10.3.x is no longer supported which means there are already outstanding issues and that list will continue to grow. Flash, as we've seen over the years, is a large threat vector for malicious payloads.

You might want to investigate running the latest Adobe flash plugin for Win32 via pipelight (which as of pipelight 0.2.0 supports flash).

--mancha

Nice to hear that you were able to find a solution.

I wonder if chromium with adobe's pepper flash plugin would run on that system?

Problem is that the pepper flash plugin isn't compatible with Firefox and Mozilla doesn't seem interested in adding in support for it.

Check out this article: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/chro...lt-and-pepper/

You can install chromium with the pepper flash plugin.