Flash-player-plugin (10.0_r12) available
 

I updated my Slackware boxes last night to Flash version 10. It works very well indeed.
First, I removed Flash version 9 then I installed version 10.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...player-plugin/

upgradepkg will work just fine for it. Flash 10 works better than Flash 9 on my box. With Flash 9, for instance, flash menus did not overlay other flash objects properly, but with Flash 10 it looks great.

Highly recommended.

i have problems with this new version, when i try to see videos on fullscreen (youtube) firefox freeze

Does it suppose to work with kde 3.5.9 konqueror also?
It won´t play nice with Opera 9.60 as i have found out in my slackware 12.1 box. Opera does not even load the plugin. Deleting .opera directory didn´t help either.

I have the exact same problem. Other than this problem of firefox freezing when videos are full screen, flash 10 works fine for me. I did completely remove flash 9 before installing flash 10.

I did not install with the slack build script from slackbuilds.org. I am using FF 3.0.3, which I installed into /opt/firefox. I just copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins with a symlink to /opt/firefox/plugins. Flash 9 worked great for me this way, even with videos on youtube at full screen.

Perhaps I'll try and install flash 10 with the slack build script. I don't think it will make any difference though. Especially since I have FF 3.0.3 installed to /opt. I'll have to symlink it anyway.

EDIT: Using the current version of Opera, I can watch videos on youtube at full screen with flash 10 and Opera does not freeze, just firefox.

You probably have a copy of flash 9 in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ or somewhere else.
If you use slocate, run this command to find all copies of flash 9 on your system:
and this to find any installed flash slack packages

I just installed flash 10 in firefox 3.03 on Ubuntu 8.04 on the same PC that has Slackware on it. I installed it the exact same way as I said in post #5 of this thread, by copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I did not install it through Ubuntu's package manager. And I made sure I completely removed flash 9 first. (I had flash 9 installed the same way, by copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins).

Now, here is the fun part: I can watch youtube videos full screen on Ubuntu in firefox 3.03 using flash 10, and firefox does not freeze at all. Firefox 3.03 only freezes in Slackware for me.

The firefox 3.03 I have in Ubuntu was the one that came with Ubuntu and has been updated through Ubuntu's package manager. The firefox 3.03 I have in Slackware is from Mozilla, and was installed by untarring firefox 3.03 and placing it in /opt.
I have no idea why the freezing happens in firefox in Slackware and not in Ubuntu.

Flash 10 works well in Firefox 2 for me (2.0.0.17 from patches/), and full-screen works better than ever. I'm not running Firefox 3 though, so I'm not sure whether that would work well on my PC or not. Opera is my browser of choice, but Flash stutters constantly in Opera. I've been using Flash 10 for a while (the first 10 beta crashed my browser, so I used 9 -- but the second 10 beta worked fairly well). This new 10.0_r12 is the best so far -- but it still stutters regularly in Opera for me.

T3Slider,
How did you install flash 10? Did you use the slack build script? Or did you install it manually?

well firefox freeze because flash crash (open firefox from terminal and you will see) now the problems is find why is crashing :\

Try uncheck the option about using hardware acceleration in the settings menu that appears when clicking the right mouse-button in the flash window. That seems to solve the fullscreen-issue for me.

Jan-C

I installed it manually (I just copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins), but it shouldn't make a difference. If you look at the SlackBuild, these are the only real commands that gets executed:
The first line just creates $PKG/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and the second just copies the libflashplayer.so file to that directory, with the correct permissions. The next part just links libflashplayer.so to $PKG/usr/lib/opera/plugins for use with opera. However, the Opera version I'm using (9.60 using the SlackBuild from slackbuilds.org) is configured to use the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory for Opera, so that part isn't useful in my case anyway. There should be no difference between using the SlackBuild and installing flash manually -- provided that you do it right.

I installed Flash 10 using the slackbuild script. No problems here with FF 3.0.3 or Opera 9.60.

I had to install seamonkey before Flash10 would work in Opera9.60...runs real smooth now, but when starting opera from commandline with -debugplugin it throws alot of error msg's about libnss3.so

Hi,

The 10 Flash work fine here on Firefox 3.03, full screen video at youtube. No freeze. No prob.

I recently fresh installed this Slack 12.1

Didn't have any Flash. Used sbo build script to install this 10 Flash.

Worked fine with Firefox 2 with full screen video at youtube.

Then got Firefox 3 Slack Current package, took the pkg apart, removed doint.sh (symlinks) and a few other things (so as to have both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 onboard). Then makepkg on my modified Firefox 3 pkg. Then installpkg mozilla-firefox-3.0.3-i686-1.tgz

Then I manually created symlink /usr/local/bin/firefox3

which points to /usr/lib/where_3.03_is_at/firefox

But I forgot about: ~/.mozilla/firefox

Both 2 and 3 use the same folder there, same bookmarks, etc.

If I alternate between using ver. 2 and ver. 3 then when the next one of the two different firefoxes starts up, it goes to its "firefox has been updated to the latest" page.

But if I repetitively use the same one of the two ver., it does not do that.

I'll just use 3.03 for a while, it's neat.

And, 3.03 (works fine) does not freeze when watching video full screen at youtube.

Alan.

This worked for me too. After unchecking hardware acceleration I can now watch youtube videos full-screen with flash 10 on FF 3.03 without freezing. Thanks Jan-C!
Disabling hardware acceleration doesn't seem to increase CPU usage any, at least in the few minutes that I have been playing around with it.
Jan-C,
Just out of curiosity, do you have a nvidia video card? and are you using the driver from nvidia? I wonder if the fact that some people experience the freezing in FF 3 with flash 10 and others don't might be related to the video card driver they are using?

@ tommcd,
Glad it worked. As for your questions,
1) Yes I have, and yes I am.
2) Can´t speculate on the reason, I just tried the only available option and it worked...:D :newbie: :D Good question, though, I wonder if anyone who have two different card/driver can verify or reject this?

This fixed it here too. Thanks!

no problem :D

thanks unchecking hardware acceleration work fine for me too, i have nvidia 6800 (driver 177.80)

I've found a problem with the new flash 10 under Window Maker. (I'm still running firefox 2 - haven't tried 3 as I don't have it installed).

If you go to a page with a flash video on it such as youtube and right click and bring up the settings menu, the popup box appears to lose focus and you can't interact with it. XFCE's Window manager works fine so its definitely another WindowMaker issue like the last one I had with flash.

I was hoping that the Window Maker project would resume development, but other than partially restoring their website back in June, there's been no visible activity since. I guess I'm just going to have to change to XFCE or maybe fluxbox.


Other than that, Flash 10 is working great on my system and seems to run a little better (more responsive, less cpu heavy) than Flash 9 did.

XFce works for me, I love it. I'm running FF 3.0.3 from current on my Slackware 12.1 system, it runs light and fast.

I used slackbuilds to install the latest flash as well as the latest Opera (9.61) but the latter doesn't detect flash in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, even though libflashplayer.so is there and nowhere else. The settings in Opera seem right: Preferences->Advanced->Content->Plug-in->Find New only turns up the SVG plug-in, which is in the same place.

Any ideas as to why this is the case?

Flash under Firefox works fine while I've never had it work with Konqueror.

Thanks all ...

I installed flash 10 by copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I just installed Opera 9.61 using the Opera installer (not using the slack build) to install Opera to /opt. Opera detected my flash 10 just fine. Opera 9.60 worked ok with flash 9 also.
You could try symlinking the Opera plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to see if this gets Opera to detect flash 10. So on my system it would be:
Adjust the above command according to the directory path you have Opera installed in.

In my system opera just won´t load flash plugin10 if seamonkey isn´t installed, i tried. Tried also symlinks to opera plugins and firefox plugins but no joy. With seamonkey installed, it fired up well. I´m not an expert here.

I have slacky.eu packaged opera.

For what it's worth, I have Seamonkey installed also. I never tried Opera without Seamonkey installed, so I can't say if it would work without Seamonkey or not.

Out of curiosity, for those of you with seamonkey installed, what's in your /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory?

Opera detects: libmozsvgdec.so, of which there is also a libmozsvgdec.la file, but does not detect libflashplayer.so, of which there is no .la file. I tried making an .la for libflashplayer in case Opera was looking for one but it didn't work. There's also an undetected symlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so.

Here is mine:
The mplayer plugin was installed using the slackbuild script from slackbuilds.org.

Well the only difference -- besides mplayer -- is gxineplugin.so. I don't have it, but it isn't relevant, right?

starting opera from the commandline with

might give some clues to what is wrong

Possible solution for Opera
 

I have the same problem with Opera 9.61 (flash won't load). Later I found that the real problem is flash10 needs libnss3.so, which is provided by firefox but not opera.

I updated /etc/ld.so.conf to add:
And then run (as root):
After that, Opera can load flash without problem.

I'm not on my slackware box right now, so I'm not quite sure about the directory name :) Please verify before you make change. I should also mention I'm using -current.

Nice, it works perfectly now with Opera. Not so much luck with Konqueror as it causes nspluginviewer to crash. But no big deal, I disable plugins on Konqueror for my everyday browsing. Thanks for the tip (and to con aslo, opera -debugplugin shows the same problem).

Uhm...I have a problem with Flash 10.0.12.36 plugin in my Konqueror.
At first, I cannot install the plugin from the official install package. So I installed FireFox 3.0.3, and then installer functioned. But another problem is the Flash can work in FireFox but cannot work in Konqueror. I checked Konqueror's configuration and find the Flash path, /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, is in the plugin folder list. I click the "Scan for Plugins" button, still no use.
Anyone successfully installed Flash 10.0.12.36 plugin in Konqueror? Please tell me how. Thanks!

hello,


i installed mozilla firefox

i am runing oracle its only run in firefox

so its ask plugins

how can i install plugin's

plz tell me any one urgent recurment sir

I´ve been using kmplayer for latest flash in konqueror, see http://kmplayer.kde.org/news.php
and http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...ID=ca03e058b90 brief how-to in comments.

Hi, I have sucessfully set up flash in konqueror (Slackware 12.2), following the instructions in:

http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konq...e-flash-howto/

For this to work, you need to compile kmplayer with npp support. You can do it modifying the slackbuild (found at http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...edia/kmplayer/ ):