[nflug] Flash player 7 and Firefox

[Joe]

Thanks.  Seems I used to know that.  Well, it's installed fine, but the 
blinking website apparently needs 8.0 (which isn't available for Linux yet?)

As a funny aside, the website I was trying to view is www.ripleys.com, 
believe it or not ;) and I managed to get to their St. Augustine Museum 
site and gave them a phone call.  I asked the person there to get on the 
site from their computer and see if they could navigate to another page 
like a sitemap, etc.  When they tried, they couldn't get into the site 
themselves because of the same problem!  LOL.

Joe

Jonathan Skulski wrote:
> type 'about:plugins' in your location bar.
>
> On 5/2/06, *Joe* < josephj at main.nc.us <mailto: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 <http://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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