nspluginwrapper + native firefox 2 + flash9?

[John Reynolds]

Hi everybody, I've been struggling with this all night and the archives +
google aren't coming up with much except for other people's success stories.

I recently ditched using the linux-firefox port in favor of the native version
when I read a post about nspluginwrapper. I've spent the last 2 days upgrading
many ports on my system. I think I've got things A-OK, but I cannot get
nspluginwrapper to do anything meaningful with the native firefox.

My config:

 6.2-STABLE as of april 10th
 CVSup'ed ports tree as of April 10th
 linux_base-fc-4_9 installed--do I need fc-6??
 linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3 also installed
 firefox-2.0.0.3,1 compiled and installed
 linux-flashplugin9 installed 

I did the following:

  % nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

saw:

Install plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
  into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

after firing firefox back up and doing about:plugins I see what I hoped to see:

   Shockwave Flash
   
       File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
       Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31
   
   MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
   application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
   application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

However whenever I visit a site that utilizes Flash, nothing shows up--not even
an 'outline' of what should be a flash file playing. 

I've tried using nspluginwrapper -r to uninstall the plugin and use
linux-flashplugin7 but the results are the same. I've also tried using
linux-mplayer-plugin which yielded similar results: about:plugins showed a
plethora of MIME type's, descriptions, etc. but no dice.

Does anybody have any clues as to what's going wrong or things I could possibly
try? From all accounts seen via google, this has "just worked" for people ... :(

Thanks in advance.

-Jr

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