Re: Firefox plugins

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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 14:17 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 01:37 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:17 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >> On 03/10/2010 12:49 PM, Craig White wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >>>> On 03/10/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:43 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >>>>>> Fedora 12 x86_64
> >>>>>> I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files
> >>>>>> libflashplayer.so  nphelix.so  nphelix.xpt  nppdf.so, I copied them from
> >>>>>> .mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,other .so's files are
> >>>>>> recognized.
> >>>>>> what am I doing wrong
> >>>>> ----
> >>>>> copying 32 bit plugins into a 64 bit folder doesn't exactly strike me as
> >>>>> the way to make them work. That strikes me as a really good way to make
> >>>>> sure that they don't work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do you have nspluginwrapper packages installed? (I think you need both
> >>>>> the i386 and X86_64 versions installed)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Craig
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> I used this : libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> >>>> OK I didn't realise that :
> >>>> nphelix.so  nphelix.xpt  nppdf.so
> >>>> were i386 plugins,I'll remove them,but it still leaves libflashplayer
> >>>> not showing up in 'about:plugins'
> >>> ----
> >>> I am of course presuming that the file you have is not really the
> >>> 'tar.gz' file but actually the binary file left when you un-tar the file
> >>> (libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz).
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Ok I did the steps 1,2,3.
> >> Yes I used the binary .so
> >> Still not showing up in 'about:plugins'
> > ----
> > where did you put libflashplayer-xxx.so ?
> >
> > did it create a new pluginreg.dat file in your firefox profile?
> >
> > as user (not root), what do you get from...
> >
> > $ grep flash ~/.mozilla/firefox/$YOUR_PROFILE/pluginreg.dat
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> Yes it created a new file.
> This produced nothing ' grep flash 
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/rgadfjcz.default/pluginreg.dat',but there is a list 
> of plugins seen through
> less ~/.mozilla/firefox/rgadfjcz.default/pluginreg.dat
----
OK - if above is true, then there is either a problem with the
libflashplayer-xxx-.so file itself or where you put it. (which as I
understand it, should be /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ directory).

Perhaps not everyone can 'execute' it or it got damaged somehow or is
just in the wrong place.

Craig


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