Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 21 09:24:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:28AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >
> > So you should not run it as root.
> 
> Let me clarify: I did not run it as root until after it didn't work as a 
> normal user.  Or at least I thought I didn't.
> 
> Now, having removed the link in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and 
> making sure that npwrapper.libflashplayer.so was not present in 
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins, nspluginwrapper and Flash as a normal 
> user works.
>

All these Firefox plugins are a big nightmare cause so many parameters
can prevent them to work.  It's a pain :(
But if you find a reliable reason, something that we can repeat, that
prevented the detection of the plugin, please mail me.  I'm interested
in updating the docs on this point.

-- 
Marc


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