shockwave on Firefox
 

Hi folks,

I'm trying to play Q*Bert online, on this webpage http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/qbert.htm

Works fine on the windows box, but on linux, i get the error,

"This page contains information of a type (application/x-director) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-In.

Click OK to download the Plug-in."

I've installed Shockwave.

games like this:

http://www.arcadepod.com/games/play.php?id=bubble2

work. (though incredibly slow)

any thoughts?

thanks!

Murray

Macromedia stuff is proprietary and non-free (and therefore: worthless).

They have a flash plugin implementation for linux (Is it slow? They made it, nobody can fix it), but no shockwave plugin. The second link uses flash, the first one shockwave.

There is no shokwave plugin. Only a flash player one.

To try and speed up flash in firefox, try adding this to your firefox startup script:

export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

oh ok. sorry for the confusion guys, thanks for the clarification. I added that line of code to firefox, we'll see if that speeds things up a bit.

Thanks!

Murray

I've been looking for a fix for this. Thank you Kovacs!!!

Heh, and I *just* went back to Opera as well. Guess I'll change over again. Long live Firefox!

Sign the pettion for shokwave: http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxswp/

done.