Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

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On 01/28/2008 02:10 PM, David Vincent wrote:
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> Alex Janssen wrote:
>> David Vincent said the following on 01/26/2008 12:39 PM:
>>> Doesn't look like you need to.
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>>> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-firefox-3-beta-2-in-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon.html
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>>> - -d
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>> Hey!  Thanks.  I'll do it.
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> well i did this on my laptop.  flash is still a problem.
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> argh.
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> back to 2.0.0.11.
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> - -d

Do you have libflashplayer.so in your /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins
directory? Do you have a .mozilla/plugins directory/folder?

If not, do this:

1. From Nautilus (file browser) do a Ctrl-h to view you hidden folders.
Go to .mozilla & right-click then 'Create Folder' - create 'plugins'.

2. Download the flash .tar.gz from
<http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BONRN>
unpack the .tz (you can do this by double-clicking the file in
Nautilus), it will create a directory/folder called
'install_flash_player_9_linux'.

Close Firefox.

Use Nautilus to go to that directory & copy the libflashplayer.so file
to the /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins directory.

3. If you've tried to install flashplugin-nonfree from Synaptic and/or
apt-get, purge it:

sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree

There are serious problems with flashplugin-nonfree - it shows up as
installed in Synaptic, but isn't actuall installed. Ref:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890

4. Restart Firefox & browse to http://adobe.com. You should then see the
flash playing on the site.

If you'd like the ability to turn flash of & on at will, install the
Mozilla PrefBar:
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
Afterwards, select 'customize' on the prefbar & add 'Flash' and
KillFlash to the toolbar. You can then tic the Flash box to turn flash
on, and un-tic it to turn it off.