Flash Player Firefox plugin will not install/play flash objects.

[Jacob Kroon]

Matt Galvin wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Everytime I go to a page the uses flash I get asked to install the
>plugin... I install the plug in and it doesn't work, it just asks
>again and I cancel. This happens everytime. I have also seen this with
>firefox on other distros. It seems to have started happening
>with ~firefox 1.0.2 (if I remember correctly).
>
>Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
>
>I found these too which seem to discuss this a bit:
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260439
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267705
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
>  
>
Perhaps this is somehow related to

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152611

but since it happens on WindowsXP, perhaps not. Although I'm using 
Firefox 1.0.3, and Flash works for me,
after applying the fix mentioned in the bug comments.

/Jacob