Re: Flash plugin RPM installed but not being used by Firefix

[Stephen Morris]

On 06/20/2013 08:25 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Thursday 20 June 2013 11:06:48 Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Gary,
      You haven't mentioned whether you are using the 64 bit version of
Fedora with the 64 bit version of firefox. I'm using the upstream
nightly version of firefox and have had the same problem, which I have
subsequently solved.
      The issue I found was the Fedora installs the flash plugin in
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins but firefox (irrespective of whether its the
32 bit or 64 bit version) looks for its plugins in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I resolved the issue by inserting a link to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
(I called the link libflashplayer.so for simplicity).
regards,
Steve
Steve,  this was my original problem as I had a 32-bit plugin installed.
However, I now have 64-bit installed.  I can watch other people's webcams now
but mine still refuses to work.

It does work in Skype on the same laptop.

Gary

[gary@gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep firefox
firefox-21.0-3.fc18.x86_64
[gary@gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep flash
flash-plugin-11.2.202.291-release.x86_64
[gary@gary ~]$ uname -a
Linux gary.ringways.co.uk 3.9.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 11 19:40:51 UTC
2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[gary@gary ~]$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 176
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179552 Jun 14 17:00 nppdf.so
[gary@gary ~]$ ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
total 388
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     41 Jun 13 13:40
libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     41 Jun 11 15:14
libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7040 Oct 17  2012
librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106640 Jan  4 13:42 libtotem-cone-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111344 Jan  4 13:42 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  73504 Jan  4 13:42 libtotem-mully-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  86288 Jan  4 13:42 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
[gary@gary ~]$
Hi Gary,
    Does your version of firefox see the totem plugins?
    Even though you have the Fedora 64 bit version of Firefox installed 
if they haven't changed the upstream defaults then it is presumably 
still looking for its plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, hence it 
shouldn't see the totem plugins either.

regards,
Steve.



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