(fedora) F8: Mozilla plugins (flash and mplayer) don't work

André Costa blueser at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 18:33:58 UTC 2007


On Nov 15, 2007 3:23 PM, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
>
> André Costa wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 2007 2:37 PM, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> David Boles wrote:
> >>
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> >>> André Costa wrote:
> >>>
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> >>>> On Nov 15, 2007 12:21 PM, André Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi Jouk,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Nov 15, 2007 11:31 AM, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen
> >>>>> <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Andre wrote on 15-NOV-2007 13:39:22.26
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My problem now is Mozilla plugins: Adobe Flash player doesn't work
> >>>>>>> (nspluginwrapper fails to, well, wrap it, for some reason), and
> >>>>>>> mplayer plugin downloads the whole movie but doesn't play it. If I
> >>>>>>> save the movie and play it directly with either xine or mplayer it
> >>>>>>> plays just fine (I tried with some trailers from
> >>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/trailers)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Maybe it is the same problem as I had yesterday with internet radio
> >>>>>> broadcasts :
> >>>>>>   -Look for which application is realy trying to play the movie. I guess it
> >>>>>>    is not the mplayer plugin but a libtotem plugin. If that is the case,
> >>>>>>    remove the plugin from /usr/lib64/mozilla/ directory and let the "real"
> >>>>>>    mplayer plugin do its work
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Thks for the tip, but unfortunatelly that was not the case...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Andre
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Well, don't know if it's the proper way to solve this, but once I
> >>>> replaced firefox.x86_64 with firefox.i386 (the same goes for
> >>>> mplayerplug-in), and removed nspluginwrapper, all started working
> >>>> again.
> >>>>
> >>>> The only (considerable) downside to it is that yelp depends on
> >>>> firefox.x86_64, but so far I chose to lose it in favor of the 32bits
> >>>> version of Firefox (I guess I could install 32bit version of yelp, but
> >>>> I'm afraid it would demand tons of 32bit libs that I don't want laying
> >>>> around).
> >>>>
> >>>> If anyone knows a better way of doing this (that would not force me to
> >>>> remove yelp), please advise.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> You did not have to remove the 64-bit Firefox. Just change the menu to
> >>> point to the 32-bit Firefox.
> >>>
> >>> - --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   David
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> >>>
> >> In the run application prompt you can use  "firefox" for  64bit and
> >> "firefox-32"  for the 32 bit. That way you can keep both on your system.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Greg and David, thks for your tips.
> >
> > AFAICS there's no such a thing as "firefox-32" or anything like it.
> > Just to make sure I reinstalled firefox.x86_64 alongside with .i386
> > version, and the only thing I get is /usr/bin/firefox, which is a bash
> > script that will run 64bit version if it is available:
> >
> > ...
> > ##
> > ## Variables
> > ##
> > MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m)
> > case $MOZ_ARCH in
> >     x86_64 | ia64 | s390 )
> >         MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
> >         SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib"
> >         ;;
> >     * )
> >         MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib"
> >         SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
> >         ;;
> > esac
> >
> > Since "uname -m" returns x86_64, this is the version that's always chosen.
> >
> > I could of course execute /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/firefox-bin
> > directly, but everytime I upgrade firefox I will have to fix this
> > reference.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andre
> >
> >
> This is how I installed 32-bit Firefox:
> http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/ff32-on-x86_64/
>
> I then followed this to get flash working:
> http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/flash/
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> gs

Hi Greg,

it sure did =) I didn't know about firefox-32 package, it really did
the trick. Now I have both 32 and 64 bits installed, and I am able to
choose which one I want to run.

Thks a lot =) Also, thks for the links, lots of cool info there.

Regards,

Andre




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