On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 23:55 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > I am just bringing up f9, and am having problems with FireFox. > Normal things seem to display OK, but film clips dont, rather I get a > screen saying that I need the flash player. > > If I go thru the button pushing to get the flash player and try the > film clip again, Im right back where I started, being told that I need > to load the flash player. I've rarely ever got that (*) to work on any browser, on any OS. It nearly always fails in one way or another: It goes through the motions, but won't start installing, or whatever's installed doesn't work. * Getting Flash to install from a webpage that says I need to add a plug-in, and it tries to arrange it. What has worked just about flawlessly for me, is to install the Adobe repo, go to <http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/> pick the YUM for Linux option, download and install it. Then, in the command line, as root, do: yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport Afterwards, any time you do a yum update, or use the updating graphical doodah that notifies you from the taskbar panel, it's self maintaining. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
