Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?

[Alexandre L.]

I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45.

I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786

I'm pretty sure this will work for you.

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Alexandre

--- En date de : Lun 15.2.10, Yuri <yuri at rawbw..com> a écrit :

> De: Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
> Objet: Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?
> À: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Lundi 15 Février 2010, 2h58
> In order to enable Flash I installed
> linux-firefox-devel-3.5.7 and
> linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45.
> They together pulled whole lot of other ports, see list
> below.
> 
> But flash still doesn't work: youtube.com shows black
> windows instead.
> I tried windows firefox under wine, but it has a lot of
> side-effects, since wine is perpetually buggy.
> 
> Anybody is able to play flash movies?
> 
> Thanks,
> Yuri
> 
> 
> List of all linux ports installed:
> linux-dri-7.4_1     Mesa-based DRI
> libraries, drivers and binaries (Linux Ubunt
> linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 The Advanced Linux Sound
> Architecture libraries (Linux Fedo
> linux-f10-atk-1.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386
> binary (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-curl-7.19.6 The command line tool for
> transferring files with URL synta
> linux-f10-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple
> Authentication and Security Layer) (L
> linux-f10-dbus-glib-0.76 GLib bindings for D-Bus (Linux
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-dbus-libs-1.2.4 Libraries for accessing D-BUS
> (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat
> XML-parsing library (Linux
> linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI
> Plugin
> linux-f10-fontconfig-2..6.0 An XML-based font configuration
> API for X Windows (Linux Fe
> linux-f10-gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 Image loading library for GTK+
> (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7 GTK+ library, version 2.X (Linux
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme
> shell from the FreeDesktop project
> linux-f10-jpeg-6b   RPM of the JPEG lib
> (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-libsigc++20-2.2.2 Callback Framework for C++
> (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-libssh2-0.18 The library implementing the SSH2
> protocol (Linux Fedora 10
> linux-f10-libxml2-2.7.3_2 Library providing XML and HTML
> support (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-nspr-4.7.6 Netscape Portable Runtime (Linux
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-nss-3.12.2.0 Network Security Services (Linux
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 Lightweight Directory Access
> Protocol libraries (Linux Fedo
> linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g The OpenSSL toolkit (Linux Fedora
> 10)
> linux-f10-pango-1.22.3 The pango library (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-png-1.2.37 RPM of the PNG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-sqlite3-3.5.9_1 The library that implements an
> embeddable SQL database engi
> linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 The TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary
> (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-firefox-devel-3.5.7 Web browser based on the browser
> portion of Mozilla
> linux-nvu-1.0_1     A complete Web
> Authoring System
> linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux
> mode for i386/amd64 (L
> 
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