Flash and Firefox on Squeeze
I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system.
I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel.
There are NO plugins or extensions showing in the Firefox Add-ons Manager.
I want to install flash since it is required for some sites that I am
interested in. I went to install flashplugin-nonfree, and found that it
was already installed! So is gnash. But neither of these plugins is
showing as installed in Firefox. I located libflashplayer.so in
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/.
I have made soft-links to this lib in:
./usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
./usr/local/lib/firefox-18.0.2/plugins/libflashplayer.so (where Firefox
is installed)
~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
~/.mozilla/firefox/08pwe47i.default/plugins/libflashplayer.so
This has worked in the past, but none of these links has made any
difference. I shut down Firefox and restarted it after making each of
the above links. Still no Flash. One site that I looked at said to
make the file executable. Okay. I did that. Still nothing.
What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to get Flash working?
All help appreciated.
Marc
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