[SOLVED] firefox not playing flash

wufo · 12-28-2013, 05:34 PM

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

Bertman123 · 12-28-2013, 05:45 PM

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

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

wufo · 12-28-2013, 06:52 PM

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

Woodsman · 12-28-2013, 07:01 PM

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.

zrdc28 · 12-28-2013, 07:42 PM

/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/"

TobiSGD · 12-28-2013, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Woodsman

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.

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

wufo · 12-28-2013, 08:48 PM

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

TobiSGD · 12-28-2013, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wufo

Firefox version is 24.1

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.

Bertman123 · 12-29-2013, 07:00 AM

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.

Speek · 12-29-2013, 08:04 AM

Maybe you are missing a dependency for flash player? Check it with:

Code:

ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep 'not found'

If this command results in no output, all dependencies are met and this is not causing the problem.

273 · 12-29-2013, 10:19 AM

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.

TobiSGD · 12-29-2013, 01:09 PM

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

coldbeer · 12-29-2013, 01:53 PM

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.

Arcosanti · 12-29-2013, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Speek

Maybe you are missing a dependency for flash player? Check it with:

Code:

ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep 'not found'

If this command results in no output, all dependencies are met and this is not causing the problem.

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

dwblas · 12-30-2013, 11:38 AM

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