gnash or swfdec on all browsers

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:18:59AM +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>  There are many sites where I have to use flash in order to view stuff.
> 
> Now I look at the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeFlash and the
> information there is hardly anything to go by.
> 
> Looking for gnash gives me this
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnash
> 
> which doesn't tell me all how to use gnash in a certain browser, say
> galeon or epiphany or for that matter icecat (installed from a
> tarball)
> 
> As a user there should be clean, precise instructions on the wiki
> which would help me, the user to do the same.
> 
> Even looking for swfdec gives me this
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportSwfdecGnome
> 
> Neither of the links gives me an appropriate way to do stuff. Can
> somebody look into the same and provide some info. there so we users
> could could use the browser to the fullest.

I agree that this might be a bit confusing, especially since the
alternative mechanism appears to be quite shaky. And you are right,
none of the above pages is ment to be a user help page. Contributions
in this direction appreciated.

OK, here how it currently works:

We use the debian alternatives system and provide -flashplugin
alternatives for the following applications:

  iceape iceweasel mozilla firefox (1.8) xulrunner (1.8) midbrowser
  xulrunner-addons (1.9 + firefox 3)

Now, if you have one flashplugin installed the alternative system
should automatically select that flashplugin.

If you have multiple flashplugin packages on your system you
can select plugins for each application manually.

For example, if you want to configure the plugin used by xulrunner 1.9
and firefox 3, run:

 sudo update-alternatives --config xulrunner-addons-flashplugin


If you want to change the plugin used by firefox 2, run:

 sudo update-alternatives --config firefox-flashplugin


 - Alexander