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