Flash and Firefox

[Russell Golden]

I installed Fedora Core 5 last night, and I can't get Flash player to 
work with Firefox or Mozilla. I've tried installing it in Firefox with 
both Firefox's built in installer and by the command line installer 
provided by macromedia (well, adobe now). Also installed manually using 
the copy command like it recommends on the mozdev website. It ain't 
workin'. Can anybody help me?

Thanks,

Russell Golden

[Oldman]

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Russell Golden wrote:
> I installed Fedora Core 5 last night, and I can't get Flash player to
> work with Firefox or Mozilla. I've tried installing it in Firefox with
> both Firefox's built in installer and by the command line installer
> provided by macromedia (well, adobe now). Also installed manually using
> the copy command like it recommends on the mozdev website. It ain't
> workin'. Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell Golden

Sure!  Try this page:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa...

In step 5 ignore their suggestion about the menu item
help-->AboutPlugins and type 'about:blugins' in the location bar instead
if you don't see the flash player listed, you could try again, after
disabling selinux before installing it (don't know if this is still a
problem or not, but it costs little to try.)

Scott
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[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:54 -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
> wow. i expect this kind of stuff from windows/internet explorer, but
> not linux and firefox. turned off SELinux and flash started working.

If windows had anything like selinux, you'd see it there too.
The sole purpose of security software is to turn computers
into very expensive bricks (which aren't even useful
in construction projects).

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:56 -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
> Okay, I've gotten Flash to work on Firefox. One teeny little problem,
> though: I can't see text. I didn't have this problem with Mozilla on
> Red Hat Linux 9. Has this happened to anyone else?

I dind't spend a lot of time fooling with it, but I noticed when
I tried the jkrowling.com site that I couldn't see test in a lot
of places, but I wasn't sure if the problem was flash or it was
just a puzzle I was supposed to solve :-).

[M A Young]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I dind't spend a lot of time fooling with it, but I noticed when
> I tried the jkrowling.com site that I couldn't see test in a lot
> of places, but I wasn't sure if the problem was flash or it was
> just a puzzle I was supposed to solve :-).

Try commenting out the line
 FontPath "unix/:7100"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf I saw this problem during the FC5 betas, and
eventually worked out that flash was tripping over this line (the font
server doesn't listen on tcp anymore by default in FC5 so it doesn't serve
any purpose).

Michael Young

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Segunda 04 Setembro 2006 14:56, Russell Golden escreveu:
> Okay, I've gotten Flash to work on Firefox. One teeny little problem,
> though: I can't see text. I didn't have this problem with Mozilla on Red
> Hat Linux 9. Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes, it's a know bug. See #11 here for a workaround:
http://macromedia.mplug.org/faq.html

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Marcelo