[nflug] Flash player 7 and Firefox

Jonathan Skulski jskulski at gmail.com
Tue May 2 14:18:34 EDT 2006


type 'about:plugins' in your location bar.

On 5/2/06, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
> I just went to a website that won't let me do anything without
> flashplayer 7 (I have 6).  It took me to adobe's site and I downloaded 7
> for Linux.
> I ran the install script and it wanted to install it for Mozilla or
> Netscape.  I chose Mozilla which put the files in
> $HOME/.mozilla/plugins.  This didn't do anything for Firefox 1.5.0.2.
> Then, I found an old flash plugins directory in /usr/lib and updated
> that.  Nada.  Then, my brain kicked in and I copied the files to
> ~/installs/firefox/plugins (where FF is actually installed - I haven't
> fixed it for global install yet).  I was sure that would work, but
> nothing happened.
>
> Each time I tested, I closed and reopened FF.
>
> The files are flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so .
>
> 1) Where is the equivalent of Help->About->Plugins in Firefox?
>
> 2) Where is the plugins manager?  I found a download setting for
> Shockwave Flash files, but all it would let me do is switch between open
> with what it thought was the right app or download to file.  (I think it
> was for .swf files which is probably not the same as plain flash anyway.)
>
> 3) Where do I put the Flash stuff so FF finds it?
>
> Joe
>
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