Hi Lonni; 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? > Yes, I had the same problem. The fix is in the Fedora 9 release notes. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/ Section 10.5.1. Enabling Flash Plugin If this works for you, pass it on. I got this advice originally from someone else on this list. -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
