On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Steve S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm running a freshly installed lenny (lenny beta2 netinst) + Gnome and > Iceweasel 3.0.1. > > I have 2 questions: > > 1) libflashplayer.so > > On my old system (sarge, dist-upgraded to testing), I had flash working with > flashplugin-nonfree. I did some research (including the last flash-related > threads) and it seems that libflashplayer.so is now available in backports or > sid (flashplugin-nonfree) or debian-multimedia (flashplayer-mozilla). > > Say I want to go a "standard repository route" (i.e. testing main contrib > non-free, none of the above). `apt-cache search` offers 3 alternative browser > plugins, which are quite new to me: > > libflash-mozplugin > mozilla-plugin-gnash > swfdec-mozilla > > Which of these is recommended, if any. What do people use? > > > 2) swfdec-mozilla, swfdec-gnome > > In an attempt to test if libflashplayer.so would still work, I > > * downloaded it from the Adobe site and put it into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (or > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/) > > * deleted .mozilla/firefox/blablaxyz.default/pluginreg.dat > > But about:plugins said that IW uses libswfdecmozilla.so. Going to a site with > flash content invokes libswfdecmozilla.so, and no video is played. > > Trying to `apt-get remove --purge swfdec-mozilla` or swfdec-gnome would result > in a complete removal of Gnome(!), since, according to `apt-cache showpkg > swfdec-mozilla`, it reverse-depends on Gnome. > > Why is that, if it's "only" a browser plugin? > > To deactivate it's usage, I renamed > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so -> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/__libswfdecmozilla.so > > But even then, about:plugins tells me that IW uses "__libswfdecmozilla.so". > Very impressive. I had to remove(!) it from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to force > IW to use libflashplayer.so. > > So, is this the only way to switch swfdec-mozilla off?
I don't know what Debian developers did with flash plugin on IW but right after doing a fresh install, I am no longer propmted to install flash plugin but rather IW appears to have a plugin pre-packaged. It does not randomly play flash media when accessed, you have to press the play button which is super annoying. I started a thread about this and never had the issue resolved. If you would like to read my thread, go the following URL: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=29263&highlight= -- Man your battle stations... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
