Flash support [branched fromRe: F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!]

[Scott Robbins]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:22:16PM +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote, On 11/16/2008 05:18 PM:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 04:30:33PM +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>   
>
> I proposed a better wording on  
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471793 .
>
>> According to a brief test I made yesterday, it may not be.  I removed 
>> libflashsupport with yum remove on a 64 bit install and sound
>> was fine.    
>
> Interesting. Please try to remove your flash-plugin and nspluginwrappers  
> and make it work again. And then please add a comment to the bug I  
> mentioned.


Ok, I removed both, and also removed firefox and my ~/.mozilla
directory, to do my best to duplicate a clean install of all three. 

I also removed opera and renamed my .opera directory.  (As it's my usual
browser, I didn't want to lose it, but did start with a fresh one.)

Reinstalled opera.  Reinstalled flash. 
Flash works, with sound.  At this point, there is no nspluginwrapper.  

One more reason it's better than Firefox, but that's a bikeshed thread.
:)

Install firefox. 

No plugins shown. 

yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64}
Start firefox.  Plugin shown and works with sound. 
So, apparently libflashsupport is no longer necessary.  This is actually
a good thing. 

yum search libflashsupport

No Matches found. 

So, I sure *hope* it's not needed.  :)

I'll add my comments to the bug very shortly, without the color
commentary. 

>
> I think much of the flash confusion comes because nspluginwrapper runs  
> mozilla-plugin-config on installation. That makes it hard to figure out  
> what is going on; it is not only a question of which packages has been  
> installed, but also in which order.

Yes, and this also means it shouldn't be necessary to run
mozilla--plugin-config, which should also be added to the documentation. 
Thanks for pushing me to test it, I learned something.


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