On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> Greetings, >> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin >> installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine >> (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't >> work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have >> a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I >> get a nasty error that I need to install Flash. >> >> >From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type >> handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> >> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" >> and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use >> Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to >> "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in >> the menu. >> >> I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same >> exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something >> specific to firefox 3. >> >> Anyone run across this? > ---- > that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine > package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b > xine' command. > > (my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime > type video/flv) This is normal behavior? It seems completely broken to me. I definitely shouldn't have to install xine to get flash to work, when i've already got the flash plugin installed (and it works in firefox2 without any issues). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
