Ed Greshko wrote: > Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:13:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Antti J. Huhtala wrote: >>> >>>> No doubt. It's a clean install of F8 with (AFAIK) the latest flash >>>> plugin. >>> Oh, I just realized there is probably a difference in my system than >>> yours. >>> I'd forgotten that I use Sun's Java stuff and not icedtea. I also >>> downloaded and installed the flash plugin direct from Adobe. >>> >>> As for what some others have said... Well it is the "Holiday" season >>> and strange as it may seem people tend to get stressed out and snap at >>> others for no apparent reason. Probably best to ignore some comments. >>> :-) >> >> I had icedtea and sun's latest jre and jdk. I always install sun's java, >> but I remember vaguely that before making the plugin links I saw there >> was already a link to libjavaplugin, but I thought I'd give icedtea a >> chance. After uninstalling icedtea I am now able to see the dbfx prices, >> but the cnn videos still stop after 1-2 seconds and go blank. > > OK.... > > I managed to duplicate what I think is your problem.... > > I fixed it by creating the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins. In there I created > symbolic links. Here is mine, yours may vary... > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 39 2007-12-21 11:32 libflashplayer.so -> > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 58 2007-12-21 09:41 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> > /usr/java/default/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 37 2007-12-21 11:46 npwrapper.so -> > /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so > > I don't think it will make a difference...but I also have the environment > variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/java_latest/jre set as well as $JAVA_HOME/bin > set in my PATH. Forgot to add that it may be necessary to delete the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat for the changes to take.
