After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL
mfv
mrkvrg at acm.org
Mon Nov 25 01:30:08 UTC 2013
Hello Ronald,
I ran across the same problem trying to get flash to work with firefox after
an upgrade.
As a hack, the following finally worked for me:
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
rm npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Hope it may work for you.
Cheers ...
Marek
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:44:16 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Having gotten past all the difficulties that related to Perl, I have
> finally managed to update essentially all of my installed ports. (I
> still have a small problem with the update for ffmpeg(2), but I'll
> take that up later on.)
>
> Unfortunately, after updating all my ports I find that I now have a
> problem with the flash plugins for both Firefox and Opera... and I
> could use some help solving these two problems.
>
> After updating all my ports I have, among many many other things, all
> of the following currently installed:
>
> firefox-25.0_1,1
> opera-12.16
> linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.327_1
> nspluginwrapper-1.4.4_2
> opera-linuxplugins-12.16
>
> (Note: I use both Firefox and Opera, at different times for different
> purposes.)
>
> After updating my ports, I dutifully followed the instructions here for
> updating the flash support in Firefox (as I have done, many times before):
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
>
> Specifically (and only) I executed this step:
>
> nspluginwrapper -v -a -u
>
> This produced the following output:
>
> Auto-update plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
> Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
> Auto-update plugins from
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin Looking for plugins in
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin Auto-update plugins
> from /home/rfg/.mozilla/plugins
> Looking for plugins in /home/rfg/.mozilla/plugins
>
> Then I quit and restarted Firefox.
>
> Unfortunately, after these steps entering "about:plugins" in the Firefox
> location bar now shows that I have -no- plugins installed. Additionally,
> upon visiting (in Firefox) a web page that I believe contains flash
> material, I am getting a notification that I need to install the flash
> plugin.
>
> So, my questions:
>
> 1) What did I do wrong?
>
> 2) How can I correct the situation and get flash working with Firefox
> again?
>
> Separately and additionally, Opera also now does not seem to believe that
> it has any flash pulgin installed either. Of course, I would like to
> correct this problem also.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list