Adobe Flash only works sometimes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Lonni;
>
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin
>> installed.  For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine
>> (Youtube, etc).  However, there are some websites where flash doesn't
>> work at all.  When I end up at a website where its not working, I have
>> a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I
>> get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
>>
>> >From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
>> handling retardation in Firefox3.  If I go to Edit -> Preferences ->
>> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video"
>> and "SWF file".  The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use
>> Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to
>> "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in
>> the menu.
>>
>> I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same
>> exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something
>> specific to firefox 3.
>>
>> Anyone run across this?
>>
> Yes, I had the same problem.  The fix is in the Fedora 9 release notes.
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
>
> Section 10.5.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
>
> If this works for you, pass it on.  I got this advice originally from
> someone else on this list.

That's not it.  It works fine on some websites, and not for others.
It works perfectly 100% of the time everywhere in firefox2.

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