(fedora) F8: Mozilla plugins (flash and mplayer) don't work

[Greg Sieranski]

André Costa wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 2:37 PM, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
>   
>> David Boles wrote:
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>>> André Costa wrote:
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>>>> On Nov 15, 2007 12:21 PM, André Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi Jouk,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 15, 2007 11:31 AM, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen
>>>>> <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Andre wrote on 15-NOV-2007 13:39:22.26
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> My problem now is Mozilla plugins: Adobe Flash player doesn't work
>>>>>>> (nspluginwrapper fails to, well, wrap it, for some reason), and
>>>>>>> mplayer plugin downloads the whole movie but doesn't play it. If I
>>>>>>> save the movie and play it directly with either xine or mplayer it
>>>>>>> plays just fine (I tried with some trailers from
>>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/trailers)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Maybe it is the same problem as I had yesterday with internet radio
>>>>>> broadcasts :
>>>>>>   -Look for which application is realy trying to play the movie. I guess it
>>>>>>    is not the mplayer plugin but a libtotem plugin. If that is the case,
>>>>>>    remove the plugin from /usr/lib64/mozilla/ directory and let the "real"
>>>>>>    mplayer plugin do its work
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Thks for the tip, but unfortunatelly that was not the case...
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Andre
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Well, don't know if it's the proper way to solve this, but once I
>>>> replaced firefox.x86_64 with firefox.i386 (the same goes for
>>>> mplayerplug-in), and removed nspluginwrapper, all started working
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> The only (considerable) downside to it is that yelp depends on
>>>> firefox.x86_64, but so far I chose to lose it in favor of the 32bits
>>>> version of Firefox (I guess I could install 32bit version of yelp, but
>>>> I'm afraid it would demand tons of 32bit libs that I don't want laying
>>>> around).
>>>>
>>>> If anyone knows a better way of doing this (that would not force me to
>>>> remove yelp), please advise.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You did not have to remove the 64-bit Firefox. Just change the menu to
>>> point to the 32-bit Firefox.
>>>
>>> - --
>>>
>>>
>>>   David
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>> In the run application prompt you can use  "firefox" for  64bit and
>> "firefox-32"  for the 32 bit. That way you can keep both on your system.
>>     
>
> Hi Greg and David, thks for your tips.
>
> AFAICS there's no such a thing as "firefox-32" or anything like it.
> Just to make sure I reinstalled firefox.x86_64 alongside with .i386
> version, and the only thing I get is /usr/bin/firefox, which is a bash
> script that will run 64bit version if it is available:
>
> ...
> ##
> ## Variables
> ##
> MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m)
> case $MOZ_ARCH in
>     x86_64 | ia64 | s390 )
>         MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
>         SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib"
>         ;;
>     * )
>         MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib"
>         SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
>         ;;
> esac
>
> Since "uname -m" returns x86_64, this is the version that's always chosen.
>
> I could of course execute /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/firefox-bin
> directly, but everytime I upgrade firefox I will have to fix this
> reference.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
>
>   
This is how I installed 32-bit Firefox: 
http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/ff32-on-x86_64/

I then followed this to get flash working:
http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/flash/

Hope this helps,
gs