On Thursday 20 June 2013 11:06:48 Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi Gary, > You haven't mentioned whether you are using the 64 bit version of > Fedora with the 64 bit version of firefox. I'm using the upstream > nightly version of firefox and have had the same problem, which I have > subsequently solved. > The issue I found was the Fedora installs the flash plugin in > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins but firefox (irrespective of whether its the > 32 bit or 64 bit version) looks for its plugins in > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I resolved the issue by inserting a link to > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > (I called the link libflashplayer.so for simplicity). > > regards, > Steve Steve, this was my original problem as I had a 32-bit plugin installed. However, I now have 64-bit installed. I can watch other people's webcams now but mine still refuses to work. It does work in Skype on the same laptop. Gary [gary@gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep firefox firefox-21.0-3.fc18.x86_64 [gary@gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep flash flash-plugin-11.2.202.291-release.x86_64 [gary@gary ~]$ uname -a Linux gary.ringways.co.uk 3.9.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 11 19:40:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [gary@gary ~]$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 176 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179552 Jun 14 17:00 nppdf.so [gary@gary ~]$ ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins total 388 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Jun 13 13:40 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Jun 11 15:14 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040 Oct 17 2012 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106640 Jan 4 13:42 libtotem-cone-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111344 Jan 4 13:42 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73504 Jan 4 13:42 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86288 Jan 4 13:42 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so [gary@gary ~]$ -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
