On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Greetings, > I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin > installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine > (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't > work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have > a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I > get a nasty error that I need to install Flash. > > >From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type > handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> > Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" > and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use > Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to > "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in > the menu. > > I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same > exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something > specific to firefox 3. > > Anyone run across this? ---- that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b xine' command. (my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime type video/flv) Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
