Flash Problem in Firefox

[Aioanei Rares]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>
>   
>> Aioanei Rares wrote:
>>     
>>> Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am trying to run up new install of Fedora 11.  I go into Firefox
>>>> 3.5.3-1.fc11 and attempt to run a YouTube vid.  I get a message stating
>>>> that I either have JavaScript disabled or I do not have the latest
>>>> version of Flash.
>>>>
>>>> I then downloaded and installed via  rpm -Uvh
>>>> flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm.  I also insured that Java and
>>>> JavaScript were enabled.
>>>>
>>>> Now when I go to YouTube I get the same message I started with.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Is your system 32- or 64-bit?
>>>
>>>       
>> It is 64 bit, is that possibly the problem.  This install is new
>> enough I could start from scratch.
>>     
>
>   i have a 64-bit f11 system running flash nicely:
>
> 1) get the tarball from
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
>
> 2) unload it to get at the single libflashplayer.so file contained
> therein
>
> 3) as root, copy that file to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
>
> 4) kill and restart all firefoxes
>
> 5) browse to "about:plugins" to verify that your browser can see the
> flash plugin
>
> 6) surf over to youtube.com, and rock out to "we built this city" by
> starship.
>
>   no, wait ... that last part can't be right.
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  hang on ... i just checked and here's the contents of my
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins_wrapped directory:
>
> ./plugins-wrapped
> ./plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_64_64.libvlcplugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/npwrapper.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/libjavaplugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
> ./plugins-wrapped/libtotem-cone-plugin.so
>
>   i'd never noticed that content before.  do i really need that
> "nswrapper" stuff related to flash?  i don't recall installing that,
> where did it come from?  can i safely toss some of that? because my
> "about:plugins" sees *that* plugin.  that's new to me, but flash still
> appears to work.  weird.
>
>
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One can copy the plugin you said abou in ~/.mozilla/plugins .