flash and firefox

[Eric Anderson]

Scott Robbins wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:05:34PM -0600, eculp at bafirst.com wrote:
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>> Quoting eculp at bafirst.com:
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>>> Quoting Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>:
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>>> Using Scott's suggestion, I installed linux-firefox and low and behold, flash 
>>> didn't work but there was an opportunity for windows like technology that 
>>> asked if I wanted to download and install the plugin, so at this point, I said 
>>> yes and it immediately downloaded and installed the plugin and flash begin to 
>>> work.  Now I have to see about linking in my mplayer plugin and look at pdf 
>>> although I have an idea they may not work.  Thanks, Scott,
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>> Unfortunately, I've yet to be successful with mplayer and linux-firefox.  Has 
>> anyone been successful playing embedded video in linux-firefox?
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> Heh, hate to say it, but for that I use native firefox.  That Just
> Works(TM).  I installed the mplayer plugin and it works with most audio
> and video formats in native firefox. 
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> I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but disk space isn't such an
> issue for me that it's worth the research to use something that I only
> need on occasion.  
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Strange - I have native firefox, with flash and acrobat reader 7, all 
working nice in 6-STABLE.  I did have to apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff 
patch though to make flash happy.  Linux-firefox however is more stable 
than native wrt flash.  I find the linux-firefox looks different, and 
the fonts are somewhat different in a strange kind of way, but not that 
noticeable.


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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