Firefox plugins
david walcroft
dwalcroft at bigpond.com
Wed Mar 10 06:36:42 UTC 2010
On 03/10/2010 03:22 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> --- 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.
>
> B
My firefox is the 64-bit version.
I have in /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper several files,so how do I
know that it is running and how do I disable it.
david
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