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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3->3.6.4 update.
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:35:36
Message-Id: 201007041035.08089.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3->3.6.4 update. by Mick
1 On Saturday 03 July 2010 23:54:56 Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 03 July 2010 20:31:35 you wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:55:50 Mick wrote:
4 > > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 12:37:53 you wrote:
5 > > > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:30:46 Mick wrote:
6 > > > > > On Friday 02 July 2010 08:51:21 netfab wrote:
7 > > > > > > Le Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:05:37 -0700,
8 > > > > > >
9 > > > > > > Grant a écrit :
10 > > > > > > > I did have an extra libflashplayer.so, I deleted it, I deleted
11 > > > > > > > pluginreg.dat, I re-emerged adobe-flash, and I restarted
12 > > > > > > > firefox, but flash still isn't working. It works in opera.
13 > > > > > > > Any ideas?
14 > > > > > >
15 > > > > > > Try with another new profile :
16 > > > > > > $ firefox -ProfileManager
17 > > > > >
18 > > > > > Here it stopped working in the new Opera-10.6 and Konqueror, but
19 > > > > > still works in FF-3.6.4. o_O
20 > > > > >
21 > > > > > I'm starting a new thread for the Opera problem ...
22 > > > >
23 > > > > Latest flash does not have a 64 bit version. On amd64 you MUST use
24 > > > > nspluginwrapper.
25 > > > >
26 > > > > Safest is to just remerge the thing and let it convert all your
27 > > > > plugins - the command to do that is somewhat arcane and tedious but
28 > > > > the ebuild does it all automatically.
29 > > >
30 > > > Right, I've done all that and also went into the browser control panel
31 > > > to ask it to scan new plugins (after I checked that the paths were
32 > > > correct) and Opera still does not play flash. Going to youtube just
33 > > > shows the circular video loading graphic and nothing much happens -
34 > > > despite the fact that the network gkrellm shows the download is taking
35 > > > place ...
36 > >
37 > > I get the same. Looks like a bug to me. I found this, but nothing
38 > > mentioned in it helped me:
39 > >
40 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321465
41 >
42 > This bug refers to clicking in the flash controls and not getting a
43 > response (as a workaround I click outside of the embedded video flash area
44 > first and then click onto it to move the video cursor, expand it full
45 > screen, etc.) The fix they suggest does not work with the problem I am
46 > trying to solve with Opera-10.60 though.
47
48 I filed this bug: 326841
49
50 --
51 Regards,
52 Mick

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