Mozilla and Flash

[Roderick Ford]

Check to see that your files in the plugin directory have the "x" (executable)
flag set.  I had trouble with this until I found that the installation had
not "chmod +x" on the files. Flash has two (maybe three??) files associated
with it that belong in the plugin dir.

--Rod



Scott Henderson wrote:
> You could very well be right on that.  It MAY only be for IE.  I
> haven't done it that way.  But Alan suggested it worked for him,
> so try it.  I only suggested removing the .so file so you
> wouldn't get hung up at that point, so you could try to do it. If
> I get a chance, I'll try it later today and let you know what
> happens. 
> 
> 
>>From: Bryce C <Plug@bryceco.net>
>>If I understand you correctly, which I'm not sure I do, that's only for
>>IE (gasp) with/using (in)activex (choke, gag, croak).  Otherwise, your
>>sent to the site for Netscape compatible on linux to download.
>>
>>On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 20:50, Scott Henderson wrote:
>>
>>>Why not take libflashplayer.so OUT of the plug-in directory, so
>>>it won't try to load, then you can run the download and install
>>>from the web.  Might work. 
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ok, I'd do that except that mozilla tries to load the flash when it's
>>>>got the mdule and locks up then.  Thanks though.
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:57, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Bryce,
>>>>>I got flash to work in Mozilla by going to a web site that required flash,
>>>>>clicked the links to go download the plug-in, downloaded the plug-in (even
>>>>>though I already had it installed on my box), and re-installed it from the
>>>>>downloaded file.  Whatever had to be setup was done automatically at that
>>>>>point and flash now works fine for me.
>>>>>A bit of a redundant process, I admit, but it worked.
>>>>>Alan
>>>>>
>>>>>On 18 Sep 2002 16:45:38 -0700 Bryce C <Plug@bryceco.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Ok, I am finally giving up trying to solve this
>>>>>>myself.  Why the F#@!
>>>>>>wont the flash plug-in I download from
>>>>>>Macromedia work in Mozilla 1.0 or
>>>>>>1.1 on mandrake 8.2?  Whenever the
>>>>>>libflashplayer.so is in the plug-in
>>>>>>directory, about:plugins shows it as installed
>>>>>>but Mozilla COMPLETELY
>>>>>>locks up when I try to visit a flash site
>>>>>>(http://www.macromedia.com). 
>>>>>>Can anyone give some clue as to why this isn't
>>>>>>working and how to fix
>>>>>>it?
>>>>>>P.S. It worked pre-1.0 and I've tried
>>>>>>re-downloading it since.
>>>>>>P.P.S.  Sorry for the coarse language but darn
>>>>>>it, i'm mad. 
>>>>>>Bryce Chidester
>>>>>
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