F9: Adobe Flash: It works, it does not work - repeating syndrome.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:50 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> I have tried in vain to get Adobe's Flash to work in FF. It does
> not matter how many times I have tried installing, un-installing
> the adobe flash package - it says it was installed successfully.
> 
> The problem so it appears, is flash works sometimes and sometimes
> it does not.  I think this may be because the default flash plugin is
> actually swfdec Yes, I have libflashsupport installed as well.
> 
> Under FireFox, you can try to change the swf default under
> 'Preferences' - however - I am clueless as how to override
> swfdec and force the default to be Adobe's Flash - attempts
> to try to do so only opens up a File/Directory Dialog box
> and I am clueless as to where/what directory/file needs to
> be loaded - I thought it was something of a library like:
> 
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> 
> but that does not seem to work.
> 
> Btw: I have no problems with F8 - works like a charm and it
> does not use swfdec - but then again - that was with FF v2.0.x
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don't have both installed - remove swfdec

run nspluginwrapper installer...

mozilla-plugin-config -i

Craig