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

[Greg Sieranski]

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:
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>>> Hi Jouk,
>>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2007 11:31 AM, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen
>>> <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
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>>>> Andre wrote on 15-NOV-2007 13:39:22.26
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>>>>> 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.
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> You did not have to remove the 64-bit Firefox. Just change the menu to
> point to the 32-bit Firefox.
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>   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.

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