Firefox plugins

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 3/9/10, david walcroft <dwalcroft at bigpond.com> 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'

Just a shot-in-the-dark:  Is your browser a 32-bit or 64-bit version?  I know you said you had 64-bit F12, but both browser types will run on it, and you need to use the proper type of plugin.

Also, are you running pluginwrapper?  It's usually installed and turned-on by default on 64-bit systems with 64-bit browsers.  It was on mine.  I disabled it.  No 32-bit plugins to wrap.

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