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#1 2008-10-20 16:40:55

nonexistent
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Registered: 2008-08-11
Posts: 10

Flash 10 problems

Hello,

I just upgraded to flashplugin 10.0.12.36-1 through pacman and now flash seems to be terribly broken.  If I load up a webpage with flash in Firefox the browser segfaults and dies, and flash content simply doesn't show up anymore in Opera.  Has anyone else been having issues with flash 10 or is it just my machine?

Flash 9 worked fine (as far as flash goes anyway) before, so I've had to downgrade back for now.

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#2 2008-10-20 17:45:45

toxygen
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Registered: 2008-08-22
Posts: 713

Re: Flash 10 problems

how did you install flash player?  are you running arch 32 or 64?  and which version of firefox are you using?

on arch 32, ff 3.0.3 (and others) i have flash 10 running, i used flashplugin-beta from aur, then when flash 10 became official i used regular flashplugin package


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Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"

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#3 2008-10-20 17:57:27

Hrod beraht
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Registered: 2008-09-30
Posts: 186

Re: Flash 10 problems

I've run into a few sites where they only look at one character of the version number. They check the 0 in the version 10 to see if it's equal to or greater than 9, and when it's not, no Flash for you! I'm not sure how to fix that since it's just bad coding on the actual website.

 function jsCBDisFlashInstalled()
{
if(nav||ie5&&mac||firefox||safari3)
{
if(navigator.mimeTypes!=null&&
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]&&
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin )
{
var version=navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description;
version=version.charAt(version.indexOf('.')-1);
return parseInt(version) >=9;
}
}
else if(ie&&!mac&&!webtv)
{
return checkFlashIE();
}
return F;
}

Bob

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#4 2008-10-20 20:25:32

Themaister
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From: Trondheim, Norway
Registered: 2008-07-21
Posts: 652
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Re: Flash 10 problems

Had to do a
pacman -S curl
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 libcurl.so.3 to get it working correctly. :s However, my problem was the plugin not loading correctly even though opera stated it was detected in about:plugins

Last edited by Themaister (2008-10-20 20:29:34)

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#5 2008-10-20 21:43:53

nonexistent
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Registered: 2008-08-11
Posts: 10

Re: Flash 10 problems

toxygen wrote:

how did you install flash player?  are you running arch 32 or 64?  and which version of firefox are you using?

on arch 32, ff 3.0.3 (and others) i have flash 10 running, i used flashplugin-beta from aur, then when flash 10 became official i used regular flashplugin package

Sorry, should have specified I'm running Arch i386, Opera 9.60, and Firefox 3.03.  I installed the flashplugin package through pacman along with a batch of other updates when I ran pacman -Syu yesterday.  I've also tried the flashplugin-opera package in AUR, but the error behavior is identical to that of the official pacman package.

Themaister wrote:

Had to do a
pacman -S curl
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 libcurl.so.3 to get it working correctly. :s However, my problem was the plugin not loading correctly even though opera stated it was detected in about:plugins

I don't believe I had that symlink before, so I added it but it hasn't changed anything.  How did you get Opera to load flash correctly?  Mine is also reporting it's detected, even though it's not working properly.

EDIT: Whoops, missed the line about installing the curl package first.  Now Flash 10 is working in both Opera and Firefox.  Thanks a lot! smile

Last edited by nonexistent (2008-10-20 21:47:37)

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#6 2008-10-21 03:56:39

nLEyETn
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Registered: 2008-10-01
Posts: 34

Re: Flash 10 problems

Thank you for the answer dealing with curl.  I had the same problem today and that fixed it.

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