7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote:
> I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the
> directions here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> 
> However, I can't get it going as a standard user. When I run
> 
>      'nspluginwrapper -v -a -i'
> 
> I get the following:
> 
>      Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
>      Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
>      Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
>      Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
>      Install plugin /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>       ... already installed system-wide, skipping
>      Auto-install plugins from /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins
>      Looking for plugins in /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins
> 
> and 'about:plugins' only shows libnullplugin.so as enabled for all MIME types.
> 
>      'nspluginwrapper -l'
> 
> shows
> 
>      /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>        Original plugin: /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>        Wrapper version string: 1.2.2

Check the permissions on /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so