Firefox flash

Gil Henck · #1 6th June 2012, 12:40 AM

Hello Here is another problem I cannot watch any flash video but and cannot watch youtube video either. I am confuse, any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

rich1974 · #2 6th June 2012, 06:34 AM

have you installed flashplugin?
i recommned you, in case you use firefox, to install an extention named "flashreplacer". you will be able to watch flash content in an external player (umplayer will be my pick).
to install the flashplugin just install "autoplus" and further on it will be quite easy to install flash.

hadrons123 · #3 6th June 2012, 07:06 AM

http://www.fedoraforum.org/?view=fedora_setup

Gil Henck · #4 14th June 2012, 04:35 PM

Hi I have been busy trying everything regarding the flash problem I have. And still no solution . Did take out and replace the flash plugins. So if someone has a solution please let me know . At this point I'll try anything .

Waiting for your answers

hadrons123 · #5 14th June 2012, 04:37 PM

Tell us wht flash plugin you are having right now?
What browser?
Did you try google chrome with pepper flash?

nonamedotc · #6 14th June 2012, 04:52 PM

Does "about : plugins" page on Firefox show flash? If flash is properly installed, you should see the following ...

Code:

Shockwave Flash

    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

Gil Henck · #7 14th June 2012, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Does "about : plugins" page on Firefox show flash? If flash is properly installed, you should see the following ...

Code:

Shockwave Flash

    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

Hi, it is there
But when I do update plugins in firefox it show me this {For your safety, Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Java. Please upgrade to the latest version.} After that I dont know how to install it.

hadrons123 · #8 14th June 2012, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Java. Please upgrade to the latest version.} After that I dont know how to install it

You can do an yum update, if you have installed it from fedora repos.

Gil Henck · #9 14th June 2012, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hadrons123

You can do an yum update, if you have installed it from fedora repos.

hi there is nothing to update! also I downloaded the latest java (jre-7u5-linux-i586.rpm) but I dont know how to install it. It is located in tmp folder and has a lock on it.

nonamedotc · #10 14th June 2012, 07:54 PM

Here, follow the instructions in this link and your java will be updated.

marko · #11 14th June 2012, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gil Henck

Hi, it is there
But when I do update plugins in firefox it show me this {For your safety, Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Java. Please upgrade to the latest version.} After that I dont know how to install it.

Note, Firefox will say that the java plugin is out of date if you just have the plugin disabled even if the java is actually up-to-date (a hint this is the problem is that the message from the update test will be prefixed with "Missing Java?"

Quote:

"Missing Java? Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Java. Please upgrade to the latest version"

If that occurs, just go to your plugins page and hit the "Enable" button on the Java plugin

Also, the java plugin being disabled has nothing to do with flash working or not.

We don't know what this "obsolete" java is, try this to show all the installed java's:

Quote:

yum list installed | grep java-

Then post what the results of that command were on the forum

rich1974 · #12 14th June 2012, 08:29 PM

goddamn right, flash has nothing to do with java.
back in time, i had an issue. i had chrome and mozilla installed in centOS 6. when i had the flash activated on chrome, it stopped working on mozilla. pretty strange.
you also can try a firefox extention named "flashaid".

marko · #13 14th June 2012, 09:00 PM

Another quirk of Firefox is that you can add a plugin and it won't notice it because it honors the pluginreg.dat file as being correct. It might have that plugin noted as "INVALID" in the file. So in some cases after you install a new plugin you need to stop Firefox, delete ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat and then restart Firefox

centaurihave6 · #14 21st June 2012, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rich1974

back in time, i had an issue. i had chrome and mozilla installed in centOS 6. when i had the flash activated on chrome, it stopped working on mozilla. pretty strange.

Rich, did you ever solve that problem? I'm experiencing the same thing. With both Firefox 12 and 13, flash is installed [which I had to do separately from the chrome install] but it doesn't work. In FF, all you see in Youtube, for example, is a black box where the video should be. Flash does, however, work with Google Chrome.
IIRC, this started happening with the current version of Adobe Flash player [11.2.202.236]. I'm using Fedora 16 with all updates applied.

marko · #15 21st June 2012, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by centaurihave6

Rich, did you ever solve that problem? I'm experiencing the same thing. With both Firefox 12 and 13, flash is installed [which I had to do separately from the chrome install] but it doesn't work. In FF, all you see in Youtube, for example, is a black box where the video should be. Flash does, however, work with Google Chrome.
IIRC, this started happening with the current version of Adobe Flash player [11.2.202.236]. I'm using Fedora 16 with all updates applied.

Does the Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins show the Flash plugin?

Does the ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat have a legitimate looking entry for "libflashplugin.so" or does the flash entry have "[INVALID]" stamped in it?