Cannot watch web videos in Mozilla 2.0.0.8

[Jonathan Kaye]

john d. herron wrote:

> Hi, Jonathan.
> Thanks for your suggestion. Typing about:plugins in the FF navigation
> bar yields the following:
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: libgnashplugin.so
>     Shockwave Flash 8.0 - Gnash 0.7.2, the GNU Flash Player. Copyright ©
>     2006 Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org>, Inc.
>     Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You
>     may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General
>     Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. For more
>     information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash
>     <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/>.
> 
> MIME Type     Description     Suffixes        Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash         Shockwave Flash         swf     Yes
> 
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: libflashplayer.so
>     Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48
> 
> MIME Type     Description     Suffixes        Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash         Shockwave Flash         swf     Yes
> application/futuresplash      FutureSplash Player     spl     Yes
> 
> 
> (snip)
> and
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: libflash-mozplugin.so
>     Flash Movie player Version 0.4.12 compatible with Shockwave Flash 4.0
> 
>     Shockwave is a trademark of Macromedia® <http://www.macromedia.com>
> 
>     GPLFLash homepage : gplflash.sf.net <http://gplflash.sf.net>
> 
> MIME Type     Description     Suffixes        Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash         Flash Plugin    swf     Yes
> application/futuresplash      Future Splash   spl     Yes
> 
> 
> plus ("with JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets) one entry each for
> QuickTime Plug-in 6.0/7, RealPlayer 9, Windows Media Player Plugin
> (mplayerplug-in 3.31),
> mplayerplug-in 3.31, Adobe Reader 7.0 (works perfectly in browser) and
> Kaffeine Starter Plugin (kaffeineplugin.so),
> 
> An attempt to run a CNN video in Konqueror yields this:
> "www.cnn.com - JavaScript - Konqueror
> Second chance exception while raising fatal exception:
> Error name: Error - Error Message: there is no public constructor for
> CNNPlaylistManager."
> 
> As you can see, that there are three different entries for what appears
> to be different versions of Shockwave Flash. Could that perhaps cause
> confusion ? or where else might the problem be?
> Thanks for helping.
> jdh

Yes, John. That would be my guess. You might try installing the latest
version of the flash plugin for FFX Flash 9 r48. You can grab the tarball
here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW
Just untar it and put the plugin, called libflashplayer.so where you usually
put your plugins for FFx. See if it works then.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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