Re: Flash & Konqueror -- Coexistence in Question
On Thursday 25 October 2001 16:53, Stephen Hinton wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2001 08:31 am, Robert Tilley wrote:
> > I have placed my ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so files into my
> > .netscape/plugins directory. Konqueror --> Netscape Plugins points to
> > these directories and yet when I visit the Flash site, www.flash.com,
> > windows are brought up informing me that I don't have Flash installed.
> >
> > These windows pop-up in an endless sequence and it takes a good deal of
> > work to stop their appearance. What's wrong with this picture? I know
> > that some people have Flash working with Konqueror.
>
> I feel your pain. Until just recently I had this same problem.
>
> I downloaded the plugin from Macromedia and installed it (in my personal
> Netscape plugins directory). I had Konq scan for it. It found it without
> problem. Still I got those annoying popups, one for each <EMBED> in a page.
>
> I don't know exactly what I did, but I was fiddling with the file
> associations in Control Center when it started to work.
>
> Try going to Control Center, File Browsing, File Associations. Expand
> "application". Pick x-shockwave-flash. Pick the "Embedding" tab. Mine was
> set to "Use settings for 'application' group". I changed that to "Show
> files in embedded viewer". I think I also had to add or move to the top the
> "Netscape plugin viewer" in the Services Preferences Order. For good
> measure I repeated this treatment for the "futuresplash" entry, also in the
> "application" group.
>
I've tried this before... First of all it shouldnt be necessary, second of
all it freezes konqueror next time I visit a flash site. Ofcouse I usually
have the plugin registered multiple times, becouse of the before mentioned
bug, so that might be what makes konqueror krash.
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