Re: F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player? Dan Thurman wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Dan Thurman wrote:
>> >
>> > I got the swf player to work in F8 but I am unable
>> > to get the player to work in F9 Firefox 3.0.
>> >
>> > I noticed that the underlying player is swfdec 0.6.0, but
>> > when I checked on F8, it is adobe's Flash. Why is it
>> > that I cannot seem to replace swfdec for adobe? And
>> > yes, I tried Firefox's edit->preferences->applications and
>> > selected 'Shockwave Flash' but nothing happened - swfdec
>> > still appears. And of course, the adobe's flash is installed
>> > but not macromedia's shockwave, which is not supported.
>>
>> Is your F9 x86_64 or i386?
>>
> i386 (686)What does your firefox about:plugins page say about which flash plugin
is being used?
MIME Type | Description | Suffixes | Enabled |
---|---|---|---|
application/x-shockwave-flash | Shockwave Flash | swf | Yes |
application/futuresplash | FutureSplash Player | spl | Yes |
MIME Type | Description | Suffixes | Enabled |
---|---|---|---|
application/x-shockwave-flash | Adobe Flash movie | swf | Yes |
application/futuresplash | FutureSplash movie | spl | Yes |