Re: On-going problems with flashplugin for IW [solved]

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

On 16/03/11 22:58, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:20 +0000
> AG<computing.account@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
> > On 15/03/11 20:05, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >      
> > > On 2011-03-15, AG<computing.account@googlemail.com>   wrote:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > Hello all
> > > >
> > > > In Iceape and other browsers (e.g. Opera) I can watch embedded
> > > > (streaming?) videos on-line.  In Iceweasel/ Swiftfox I cannot.
> > > > Insterad I get a variation on this message: "Note: Either you do
> > > > not have Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer or your
> > > > Flash Version is outdated. You need Flash Player in order to view
> > > > this item. Download Flash Player
> > > > now.<http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer>"
> > > >
> > > > I have double-checked and I have the latest flashplugin-nonfree
> > > > installed and seems to be accessible to the other browsers, so why
> > > > doesn't IW "see" the plugin and use it as well?  In my
> > > > ~.mozilla/plugins/ directory the library libflashplayer.so is
> > > > installed
> > > >          
> > > That may well be the problem. Installing flashplugin-nonfree makes
> > > the plug-in available system-wide; having libflashplayer.so in
> > > ~/.mozilla/plugins/ means that you also have a personal copy.
> > >
> > >
> > >        
> > > > and executable and as far as I can tell, the plugins are
> > > > registered with IW as seen by doing about:plugins in the address
> > > > bar.
> > > >          
> > > Try removing your personal copy (or just start with a new
> > > ~/.mozilla to experiment).
> > >
> > >
> > >        
> > Hi Liam
> >
> > I changed the name of the local libflashplayer.so and fired up IW
> > again
> > - still the same issue though.
> >
> > So I mv'd the entire ~/.mozilla directory and ran IW again, losing
> > extensions, etc., in the process.  There is now no plugins directory
> > under ~/.mozilla and after inspecting /usr/lib/iceweasel and
> > /usr/lib/mozilla both have flashplugin-alternative.so installed.
> >
> > According to about:plugins shockwave flash version 10.1r102
> > (libflashplayer.so) is installed and enabled.
> >
> > However, still the same error message.  Any further ideas?
> >      
> My version of the flashplugin is 10.3 d162.
>
> Try running "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and see if you get a
> newer version. That command did nothing on my box but maybe that is
> because I have the newest version. Let us know.
>
>
>    

Hi all

Many thanks for all the suggestions.

I ran the update-flashplugin-nonfree --install and am now running 
Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152, which is an improvement, but still not the 
10.3 d162 Alan reports.  I am running testing/ wheezy on a 32-bit 
machine, so that may account for the difference?

I do use a java blocker Ed, but for testing this I ensured that all 
scripts were temporarily allowed.

An update on this, the libflashplayer.so is no longer in the ~/.mozilla 
directory, which goes back to Liam's original suggestion, so why that is 
taking effect and working now, I cannot say.  Furthermore, the issue 
only reappears if I go to say, YouTube and enable Tor.  For the rest of 
it, it now seems to work just fine, although I can't really say that I 
have any clearer understanding of the problem.  But, at least if this 
reoccurs I have a decent grasp of what I need to do.

So, thank you all for your input.

Best wishes

AG