Flash videos not playing in Fedora 11 firefox browser

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 09:51 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > I tried to download flashplayer for linux from adobe website and
> > downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and found that it contained
> > only 1 file with .so extension (shared object).
> >
> > [snip]
>  
> My guess--and it's only a guess--is that you downloaded the Windows
> version of the flash plugin.  Zip is usually used by Windows.  Linux
> uses .rpm, .tar.gz, and a few others, but rarely just plain ol' .zip.

Zip is used for some Linux stuff, besides which the OP says he extracted
a .so file, so it is for Linux.

poc