Firefox plugins

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:17 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 12:49 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >> On 03/10/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:43 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >>>> Fedora 12 x86_64
> >>>> I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files
> >>>> libflashplayer.so  nphelix.so  nphelix.xpt  nppdf.so, I copied them from
> >>>> .mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,other .so's files are
> >>>> recognized.
> >>>> what am I doing wrong
> >>> ----
> >>> copying 32 bit plugins into a 64 bit folder doesn't exactly strike me as
> >>> the way to make them work. That strikes me as a really good way to make
> >>> sure that they don't work.
> >>>
> >>> Do you have nspluginwrapper packages installed? (I think you need both
> >>> the i386 and X86_64 versions installed)
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I used this : libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> >> OK I didn't realise that :
> >> nphelix.so  nphelix.xpt  nppdf.so
> >> were i386 plugins,I'll remove them,but it still leaves libflashplayer
> >> not showing up in 'about:plugins'
> > ----
> > I am of course presuming that the file you have is not really the
> > 'tar.gz' file but actually the binary file left when you un-tar the file
> > (libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz).
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> Ok I did the steps 1,2,3.
> Yes I used the binary .so
> Still not showing up in 'about:plugins'
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where did you put libflashplayer-xxx.so ?

did it create a new pluginreg.dat file in your firefox profile?

as user (not root), what do you get from...

$ grep flash ~/.mozilla/firefox/$YOUR_PROFILE/pluginreg.dat

Craig


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