Flash player for Linux (WAS: Re: The silly mess with Firefox 1.5.0.4's Flash plugin)

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Wed Aug 30 20:54:05 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:31, Robin Laing wrote:
> Ski Dawg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:34 +0100, M A Young wrote:
> >
> >
> > Just a follow up to this. I just read an interview with the lead
> > engineer for Adobe's Flash Player team. He says the Flash 9 player for
> > Linux is expected for early 2007.
> >
> > Read the interview at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=96 (originally
> > linked from /. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/08/30/0531253.shtml )
> >
> > You can read his blog, called Penguin SWF, at
> > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf
> >
> > He did say that they are currently working on x86 based Flash Player. If
> > you want something else (alternative OS, like BSD or 64 bit or PPC) to
> > use the Wish Form at http://www.adobe.com/go/wish rather than posting in
> > the Penguin SWF blog.
> > --
> > Doug
>
> There is also a work around that I came across that will work with some
> sites that request Flash 9.
>
> From
>
> http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/flash-9-for-xubuntu/
>
> 1) Make a back-up of the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat:
>
> cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat.bak
>
> 2) Edit that file:
>
> nano ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat
>
> 3) Replace the lines that say
>
> Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63:$
>
> to
>
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r63:$
>
> --
> Robin Laing

Hi Robin. That's interesting. I don't access sites that use Flash much, but 
have you got a link to a site that needs Flash 9, so that I can try the 
workaround. Not a crude site please.

Nigel.




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