nspluginwrapper + flash-plugin + Firefox 10 [Linux]

[David Benjamin]

Hi,

Unless you're on some architecture like arm where Adobe does not have
a native version of Flash, I /strongly/ recommend you do not use
nspluginwrapper. Your distribution is apparently wrapping every
plugin; Firefox wrapping everything on startup is not an upstream
behavior.

I recommend you file a bug with them to stop doing this.
nspluginwrapper is buggy, and it doesn't actually do anything for
plugin sandboxing or robustness. Both Chrome and Firefox natively
support out-of-process plugins now and, for various technical reasons,
nspluginwrapper can't give you something as robust. (If you want
sandboxing on top of that, the only solution today is Chrome with
their built-in PPAPI Flash.)

So, I actually suggest doing one of your workarounds.

As for your fixing this in nspluginwrapper (since it is a bug). I
actually can't play the videos with or without nspluginwrapper, but it
does get further along without it. I did notice that the
nspluginwrapper version is actually fetching different URLs that don't
exist. So something weird's going on there. I can see if I can maybe
figure out what's going on. But again, I do not recommend you use
nspluginwrapper for Flash anyway. I've personally been using the
native 64-bit version (and now the Chrome PPAPI one) for a while now.

David

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Koo Koolappai <kookoolappai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Summary:
> Flash videos of http://areena.yle.fi do not play with nspluginwrapper
> + Firefox 10 + flash-plugin.
>
> Three workarounds:
>
> Method #1
> - add "libflashplayer*" into the ignore list in /etc/sysconfig/nspluginwrapper
>
> Method #2
> - remove nspluginwrapper package from the system
>
> Method #3
> - remove flash-plugin package from the system and libflashplayer.so is
> in /home/myname/.mozilla/plugins/
>
> Full description of the problem:
> http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1769
>
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