firefox-problems

[dick kampman]

dear list,

I am an longterm linux-user, since 1995. I have used much different
distros.

I have installed xfce-fedora on two laptops (Toshiba Satellite; Acer
Travelmate 5720).

The reason for choosing XFCE is that Gnome3 and Unity do not give me
satisfactory possibilities in working with Linux.

Now, I have a problem with using sound under firefox. The
TOSHIBA-xfce-fedora version did not give troubles with sound under
YOUTUBE. There are two plugins: IcedTea... and Shockware Flash...

Helas, with the installation under ACER however, only the IcedTea-Plugin
is installed. I cannot understand the difference for the 2 laptops.

Is a member of this list capable to explain this to me?

with kind regards,

Dick Kampman
[e-mail]
Groningen, Netherlands

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 13:29, dick kampman  wrote:
> Now, I have a problem with using sound under firefox. The
> TOSHIBA-xfce-fedora version did not give troubles with sound under
> YOUTUBE. There are two plugins: IcedTea... and Shockware Flash...

I suppose you mean Adobe Flashplayer plugin?
> Helas, with the installation under ACER however, only the IcedTea-Plugin
> is installed. I cannot understand the difference for the 2 laptops.

Since Fedora does not distribute Adobe Flashplayer, I suppose you
forgot to install it on the ACER?

[Martin Sourada]

Hi Dick,

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:29:03 +0100 
dick kampman wrote:
> dear list,
>
> I am an longterm linux-user, since 1995. I have used much different
> distros.
>
> I have installed xfce-fedora on two laptops (Toshiba Satellite; Acer
> Travelmate 5720).
>
> The reason for choosing XFCE is that Gnome3 and Unity do not give me
> satisfactory possibilities in working with Linux.
>
> Now, I have a problem with using sound under firefox. The
> TOSHIBA-xfce-fedora version did not give troubles with sound under
> YOUTUBE. There are two plugins: IcedTea... and Shockware Flash...
>
> Helas, with the installation under ACER however, only the
> IcedTea-Plugin is installed. I cannot understand the difference for
> the 2 laptops.

It's not a sound problem at all, you just don't have flash installed.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
> Is a member of this list capable to explain this to me?

Anyway, if the above link does not help you (it should, however) you'd
better ask on IRC at #fedora in irc.freenode.net or at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users mailing list
(whatever works better for you). It's probably unrelated to xfce.

Cheers,
Martin

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 03/04/2012 04:29 AM, dick kampman wrote:
> dear list,
>
> I am an longterm linux-user, since 1995. I have used much different
> distros.
>
> I have installed xfce-fedora on two laptops (Toshiba Satellite; Acer
> Travelmate 5720).
>
> The reason for choosing XFCE is that Gnome3 and Unity do not give me
> satisfactory possibilities in working with Linux.
>
> Now, I have a problem with using sound under firefox. The
> TOSHIBA-xfce-fedora version did not give troubles with sound under
> YOUTUBE. There are two plugins: IcedTea... and Shockware Flash...
>
> Helas, with the installation under ACER however, only the IcedTea-Plugin
> is installed. I cannot understand the difference for the 2 laptops.
>
> Is a member of this list capable to explain this to me?
>
> with kind regards,
>
> Dick Kampman

Hi Dick,

Flash and Java are always a pain in the neck with Linux Firefox.

In Firefox, go to about:plugins (write it in your address bar like you
were going to a web page).  Flash will show up looking liek;

Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so
     Version:
     Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102

If flash does not show up, then you have to exit Firefox and install
Flash manually.

Do this by going to

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

and downloading the RPM (make sure you select the RPM version).

Then the syntax to install it (as root) from a Terminal of your
choice will look something like this, depending on version:

# rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.1.102.62-release.x86_64.rpm

"#" means your user name is root: all others are "$".  Leave it
off when you run the above.

There are other things that do cause Flash not to take,
but this will fix ~95% of them.  If not, you know where we
are.  :-)

HTH,
-T

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 04:00, Todd And Margo Chester
 wrote:
> and downloading the RPM (make sure you select the RPM version).

Actually I would say use the yum version and then from a terminal as root:

# yum install flash-plugin

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 03/04/2012 07:09 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 04:00, Todd And Margo Chester
>   wrote:
> > and downloading the RPM (make sure you select the RPM version).
>
> Actually I would say use the yum version and then from a terminal as root:
>
> # yum install flash-plugin

Oh you know what, Fedora does have that in its repo.  I was thinking
Enterprise Linux, where you have to download rpmforge's repo
before using Suvayu's command.

Use Suvayu's command.  It is a lot easier.

-T

[dick kampman]

Thanks for the advices. I will try to solve my problems.

Dick Kampman
[e-mail]

[dick kampman]

dear list,

after re-installing Fedora-16 XFCE, and research, it appeared that, as
far as the plugin-problems of Firefox were concerned, the problem was
caused by the root-rights for Firefox and .mozilla.

After changing the rights to user, my test-problem (hearing piano-player
Uwe Kliemt on You Tube) was resolved.

Thanks for your attention,

With kind regards

Dick Kampman
[e-mail]