F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Dan Thurman wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Dan Thurman wrote:
>> > Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dan Thurman wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I got the swf player to work in F8 but I am unable
>> >> > to get the player to work in F9 Firefox 3.0.
>> >> >
>> >> > I noticed that the underlying player is swfdec 0.6.0, but
>> >> > when I checked on F8, it is adobe's Flash.  Why is it
>> >> > that I cannot seem to replace swfdec for adobe?  And
>> >> > yes, I tried Firefox's edit->preferences->applications and
>> >> > selected 'Shockwave Flash' but nothing happened - swfdec
>> >> > still appears. And of course, the adobe's flash is installed
>> >> > but not macromedia's shockwave, which is not supported.
>> >>
>> >> Is your F9 x86_64 or i386?
>> >>
>> > i386 (686)
>>
>> What does your firefox about:plugins page say about which flash plugin
>> is being used?
>>
> 
> F8: Firefox v2.0.xxx
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
>     Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
> 
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes
> 
> 
> F9: Firefox v3.0.xxx
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: nswrapper_32_32.libswfdecmozilla.so
>     Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100
> 
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes
> 
> 
> 
> So -- the wierd thing is, that in F8, the Adobe Flash player works for all
> swf files within the browser, even though it says: "Shockwave Flash",
> but in F9, even though it says "Adobe Flash movie", it resorts to using
> swfdec 0.6.0. !
> 
> I have no clue why Firefox v3.0 does not seem to recognize adobe flash
> and I have tried several times to reset the application within FF 3.0 to
> no avail.

Have you run mozilla_plugin_config after installing the Adobe Flash plugin?

> Dan
> 


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