Re: (fedora) F8: Mozilla plugins (flash and mplayer) don't work

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André Costa wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 12:21 PM, André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Jouk,
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2007 11:31 AM, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen
>> <joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Andre wrote on 15-NOV-2007 13:39:22.26
>>>
>>>> My problem now is Mozilla plugins: Adobe Flash player doesn't work
>>>> (nspluginwrapper fails to, well, wrap it, for some reason), and
>>>> mplayer plugin downloads the whole movie but doesn't play it. If I
>>>> save the movie and play it directly with either xine or mplayer it
>>>> plays just fine (I tried with some trailers from
>>>> http://www.apple.com/trailers)
>>> Maybe it is the same problem as I had yesterday with internet radio
>>> broadcasts :
>>>   -Look for which application is realy trying to play the movie. I guess it
>>>    is not the mplayer plugin but a libtotem plugin. If that is the case,
>>>    remove the plugin from /usr/lib64/mozilla/ directory and let the "real"
>>>    mplayer plugin do its work
>> Thks for the tip, but unfortunatelly that was not the case...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andre
> 
> Well, don't know if it's the proper way to solve this, but once I
> replaced firefox.x86_64 with firefox.i386 (the same goes for
> mplayerplug-in), and removed nspluginwrapper, all started working
> again.
> 
> The only (considerable) downside to it is that yelp depends on
> firefox.x86_64, but so far I chose to lose it in favor of the 32bits
> version of Firefox (I guess I could install 32bit version of yelp, but
> I'm afraid it would demand tons of 32bit libs that I don't want laying
> around).
> 
> If anyone knows a better way of doing this (that would not force me to
> remove yelp), please advise.


You did not have to remove the 64-bit Firefox. Just change the menu to
point to the 32-bit Firefox.

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  David
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