Flash and Firefox on Squeeze

[Marc Shapiro]

I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system.

I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel.

There are NO plugins or extensions showing in the Firefox Add-ons Manager.

I want to install flash since it is required for some sites that I am
interested in. I went to install flashplugin-nonfree, and found that it
was already installed! So is gnash. But neither of these plugins is
showing as installed in Firefox. I located libflashplayer.so in
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/.

I have made soft-links to this lib in:

./usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
./usr/local/lib/firefox-18.0.2/plugins/libflashplayer.so (where Firefox
is installed)
~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
~/.mozilla/firefox/08pwe47i.default/plugins/libflashplayer.so

This has worked in the past, but none of these links has made any
difference. I shut down Firefox and restarted it after making each of
the above links. Still no Flash. One site that I looked at said to
make the file executable. Okay. I did that. Still nothing.

What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to get Flash working?

All help appreciated.

Marc

[Morel Bérenger]

Post by Marc Shapiro
This has worked in the past, but none of these links has made any
difference. I shut down Firefox and restarted it after making each of the
above links. Still no Flash. One site that I looked at said to make the
file executable. Okay. I did that. Still nothing.

I might be wrong since I do not use firefox/iceweasel, but have you tried
to manage plug-ins through the Firefox's interface?
I think I have recently read that they will now need explicit activation
for plug-ins. It that's true, only installing one system-wide is useless,
you need to say to firefox that it have to use the plug-in.

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Post by Marc Shapiro
I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system.
I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel.

Most likely the culprit is architecture mismatch. Your plugins are
amd64, while Firefox might be i386, i.e. "32-bit" (at least that's the
default download option on www.mozilla.org/en-US). You might want to try
a 64-bit Firefox from, for example,
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases.

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[Marc Shapiro]

Post by Sarunas Burdulis
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Post by Marc Shapiro
I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system.
I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel.

Most likely the culprit is architecture mismatch. Your plugins are
amd64, while Firefox might be i386, i.e. "32-bit" (at least that's the
default download option on www.mozilla.org/en-US). You might want to try
a 64-bit Firefox from, for example,
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases.

No, I have been using the 64-bit version. Finding it was a challenge
when I first upgraded to a 64-bit machine, though. It's a good thing
that you posted the URL, however, since, when I just went out to
download V19.0 I could not find a way to get to it by navigating the
menus. Mozilla seems to have changed their site and made it even harder
to find the 64-bit versions. I have it bookmarked now.

Also, when I upgraded to the new version my flash and citrix receiver
both are back in my plugins. I think there must have been something
just slightly wrong with either V18.0.2, or my installation of it. In
any case, it's all working now.

Thanks, again, for the link.

Marc

[Curt]

Post by Marc Shapiro
I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system.
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/.

in /etc/alternatives I have the soft link

flash-mozilla.so

pointing to:

/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

It was all done automagically when i installed flashplugin-nonfree.