firefox 3 and flash 10

Hi,

i'm using an acer one linpus lite 1.5g ram, SSD 8g.

I managed to install firefox 3 successfully, a bit of a pain tho....
I manually removed ff2 package then went through some instructions i found to install ff3 on linpus lite, ff2 was reinstalled for the libraries within this process it was well over 50 meg of downloads.

Everything works except for flash plugin, i installed the yum rpm from adobe rebooted and it worked again, great.... Strange thing is I had flash working on both firefox 2 and firefox 3, then when i added some more applications the firefox 3 versions flash plugin stopped working.

Now I cant get flash working on firefox 3 again?!?! i followed the process i did before (as it worked) but no joy this time....

Can anyone help me install adobe flash player 10 on firefox 3 and get it to stay working....PRETTY PLEASE

I know that the fedora dependencies can really mess up the system if the wrong thing is installed from the repos....

Any one know why flash 10 doesnt work with ff3?

 

Do you know where you extracted the FF3 binary? -- There should be a symlink to the plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I would check that the symlinks wer not deleted. You may need to:

(don't type this line until you edit!)
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /<directory with FF3 binary>/firefox/plugins

A great FF3 install tut: http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/installing-firefox-3-on-acer-aspire-one.html

 

I have also the problem, that I installed flash player 10; it is also listed in the firefox 3 plugins; however when I try to view eg in the mediatek of the German television a video nothing happens. When I disable the flash player the website of the mediathek says: load the flash layer; when I enable the plugin again; this message disappears; this means the website recognises that I have the player.
However nothing happens.
I searched for the directory: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ it is there
I searched for the ff3 binary - I assume that it the executable firefox file- it is in usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3
However, in this library there is no plugins;
but a "plugins" directory is in the directory for firefox-2.0.0.14, which I maintain following an advice in one of the posts here in the forum
I created that directory in the ff3 directory, executed the command you listed above started firefox but still the same result: no video played.
I will do now a restart and try again; if the result is better I will report here
EDIT: I restarted and now the videos work

Winfried
PS By the way: acer has installed an update site: http://www.acer.com/aspireone/aspireone_8_9/support/files/connect.html and this contains also an update to firefox 3 ; for a beginner its easier than macles

 

It took me a while to find this but the easy way to install Firefox 3 and Flash 10 is to go to this :

http://www.acer.com/aspireone/aspireone ... s.html#001

You will find a download that does it all very simply.

Hope it helps

Tonyj1999

 

This download has worked simply and fine, thank you very much. But it has installed the Google Toolbar together with Firefox, and I don't want this. How can I remove it?

 

Play in firefox with the menu "view/toolbars/customize"

 

Hmm I have already done this, but it only makes that the toolbar isn't displayed; what I want is to remove it completely from my computer.

 

I have not found yet a way to do it; would also be interested, if somebody in the forum could give advice.
.
However, I am using the noscript add on. That add on disables all the scripts Google or others are using on their websites. It is then you who permits or forbids scripts, when browsing; sometimes you need to permit scripts eg when buying a book or downloading something. But you exclude then all the aweful advertisments. AND you disable the Google analytic tools.

Winfried

 

I did a few reinstall tests with flash 10 and it seems that flash can break if installed from the repos.

You can install it and get it working from the repos, however rebooting is another story and seems to break flash.
It seems to work best to install using the download from the adobe website than the repositories.

Thats how i'd pretty much sum it up.

FLASH 10 also does not work with Firefox 3 on my Ubuntu Hardy Machine 8.04
I've tried downloading flash 10 from Adobe and the official repos and a few other sources but it is just not working. No playback at all.
I have reverted to the old Flash 9 and it works absolutely fine.