Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

[Ean Kingston]

Thanks sort of. As your previous post mentioned, you were trying to do this 
with firefox 1.0.7 and you couldn't get it to work with firefox 1.5.

Well, I went through it anyway and still couldn't get it to work but, oddly, 
when I started putting the flash stuff back 
into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, I no longer needed to mess with the 
flash6.so files. So, at least it's a bit cleaner now.

I think all I had to do was to link two files so that they appear 
in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins:

flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt
libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so

On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:24, Chandan Haldar wrote:
> This mail in the freebsd list archives describes what I did to get
> firefox 1.0.7 and flash 6 working:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=660877+665553+/usr/local/www/db
>/text/2006/freebsd-questions/20060305.freebsd-questions
>
> Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end).  Perhaps
> this will do the trick for you too.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Chandan
>
> Ean Kingston wrote:
> >I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work
> > with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying
> > problems.
> >
> >I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it
> >along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, reviewed
> > the port build notes, looked for readmes, and searched some with Google.
> > I found several detailed installation instructions but none of them
> > worked for me.
> >
> >In order to get it to work, I copied flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so
> >from the linux-flashplayer6 installation directory into the
> > browser_plugins directory. I took this from instructions for getting an
> > older flashplayer5 to work.
> >
> >This at least got me to an error message (about not being able to locate
> >libpthreads.so. That is one of the things that linuxpluginwrapper is
> > supposed to take care of.
> >
> >After several more attempts at trying to resolve this, I resorted to a
> > brute force method. I copied the flash6.so library that came with
> >linuxpluginwrapper to the browser_plugins directory as libpthreads.so.
> >
> >This is a very bad solution but I got flash working.
> >
> >So, my question is how do I get this to work properly? For any who might
> > be able to help, here is some relevant info:
> >
> >Installed:
> >firefox-1.5.0.1,1
> >linuxpluginwrapper-20051113
> >linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3
> >
> >messy file copies:
> >flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt
> >libdl.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so
> >libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so
> >libpthread.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so
> >
> >So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy?
>
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-- 
Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO