Adobe Flash only works sometimes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin
>> installed.  For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine
>> (Youtube, etc).  However, there are some websites where flash doesn't
>> work at all.  When I end up at a website where its not working, I have
>> a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I
>> get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
>>
>> >From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
>> handling retardation in Firefox3.  If I go to Edit -> Preferences ->
>> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video"
>> and "SWF file".  The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use
>> Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to
>> "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in
>> the menu.
>>
>> I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same
>> exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something
>> specific to firefox 3.
>>
>> Anyone run across this?
> ----
> that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine
> package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b
> xine' command.
>
> (my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime
> type video/flv)

This is normal behavior?  It seems completely broken to me.  I
definitely shouldn't have to install xine to get flash to work, when
i've already got the flash plugin installed (and it works in firefox2
without any issues).

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