No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox - working

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Mon Nov 23 17:50:26 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:58 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 04:46:40 Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 04:21 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > firefox-3.5.5-1.fc12.x86_64
> > > libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> > 
> > Does flashplayer appear in your Firefox about:plugin? In mine it does
> > not.
> 
> Yes, it does appear here:
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
> File name: libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
> 
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes
> 
> Sorry for copy-pasting from a table, it looks ugly in plain text. But 
> definitely, it is registered in about:plugins just as I would expect it to.
> 
> Did you restart firefox after installing flash plugin? And note, the page is 
> "about:plugins", not "about:plugin". ;-)

Marko,

Restarting Firefox was required, and of course I had overlooked that
note on the Fedora Project wiki page. Everything now works as it should.
Thanks.

--Doc




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