[Bug 214722] Re: Flash stops working in firefox on ubuntu 8.04

[bitsun]

I just  figured everything out myself.

I used 7.10 before, and installed the non-free flash plugin and it all
worked fine. After I updated to 8.04 it all stopped working like peck
described. Installing the newest official adobe flash player did not
help either. And  I did not have gnash or libflashsupport.so installed.

Two solutions:
Solution1:
1,Installed the newest adobe flash plugin, find the file /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so, make it executable, if it is not
2. locate these files libnss3.so, libssl3.so,libsmime3.so, libplds4.so, libplc4.so, libnspr4.so.(usually they are in /usr/lib). Attention, you may have already libnss3.so.1d, libssl3.so.1d, libsmime3.so.0d, libplds4.so.0d, libplc4.so.0d, libnspr4.so.od. However libflashplayer.so strangely demands libnss3.so 
So to make the corresponding link, in my ubuntu 8.04 i did the following:

ln /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplds4.so
 ln /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplc4.so
 ln /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
 ln /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib/libnss3.so
ln /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib/libssl3.so
ln /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.0d /usr/lib/libsmime3.so

After these steps, it should work

Solution 2,
1, if you do not want to bother yourself to these lib files tweak, download a binary from firefox website, extract them to a folder of your choice.
2, follow the first step in solution 1
3, start the firefox in the extracted folder and it should work

To  redocpot :
To debug what is going on, start firefox from the shell, it will give you some hints to what went wrong.
I found out these lib file dependencies via this method.

cheers

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Flash stops working in firefox on ubuntu 8.04 
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