On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. ---- I've never had to do that Craig
