F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player?

[Dan Thurman]

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.

Thanks-
Dan

[Kevin Cummings]

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?
> Thanks-
> Dan

[Dan Thurman]

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)

Dan

[Kevin Cummings]

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?
> Dan

[Dan Thurman]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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?

F8: Firefox v2.0.xxx

Shockwave Flash

File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

F9: Firefox v3.0.xxx

Shockwave Flash

File name: nswrapper_32_32.libswfdecmozilla.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes

So -- the wierd thing is, that in F8, the Adobe Flash player works for all
swf files within the browser, even though it says: "Shockwave Flash",
but in F9, even though it says "Adobe Flash movie", it resorts to using
swfdec 0.6.0. !

I have no clue why Firefox v3.0 does not seem to recognize adobe flash
and I have tried several times to reset the application within FF 3.0 to
no avail.

Dan

[Kevin Cummings]

Dan Thurman wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > 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?
>
> F8: Firefox v2.0.xxx
>
> Shockwave Flash
> File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
>
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes
>
> F9: Firefox v3.0.xxx
>
> Shockwave Flash
> File name: nswrapper_32_32.libswfdecmozilla.so
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100
>
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes
>
> So -- the wierd thing is, that in F8, the Adobe Flash player works for all
> swf files within the browser, even though it says: "Shockwave Flash",
> but in F9, even though it says "Adobe Flash movie", it resorts to using
> swfdec 0.6.0. !
>
> I have no clue why Firefox v3.0 does not seem to recognize adobe flash
> and I have tried several times to reset the application within FF 3.0 to
> no avail.

Have you run mozilla_plugin_config after installing the Adobe Flash plugin?
> Dan

[Kevin Cummings]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Have you run mozilla_plugin_config after installing the Adobe Flash plugin?

No, wait, that's for using nspluginwrapper on x86_64.   My bad.