[ale] how2 enable Macromedia w/Firefox ?

Jim Philips jimmyc at speedfactory.net
Sat Jun 4 13:43:49 EDT 2005


On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:07 pm, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> No, I have no flashplayer* files under plugins but do have the
> standalone player installed&functional.
>
> Is there no way to point to this file under Firefox so that when
> flashplayer is needed it is then run ?
>
> Cordially,
> Courtney

Basically, no. In all cases I know of, you need the application AND the plugin 
to get plugin functionality within Firefox.

>
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 06:00, Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 June 2005 04:05 pm, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > > I have installed Macromedia Flashplayer  and Firefox but when I access
> > > a site that uses Flashplayer, nothing Flash-like happens, of course,
> > > because I don't know how to configure Firefox to enable this function.
> > >
> > > BTW, I've installed the player as a standalone program rather than a
> > > plugin and it does work... standalone.
> >
> > Do you have anything in the Firefox plugins directory? I have this:
> >
> > rebus at localhost:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls
> > flashplayer.xpt*    libnullplugin.so*  nphelix.xpt*
> > libflashplayer.so*  nphelix.so*        nppdf.so*
> >
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