Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

InfernalH · 2010-02-03 18:22:42

Hello,

it seems that I flash stopped working in Namoroka. I've tried to reinstall it (pacman -S flashplugin), rebooted - didn't work. When I start firefox from console it just outputs "OpenOffice path is '/usr/lib/openoffice'", no errors.

Any ideas?

wonder · 2010-02-03 19:04:44

check the permission of /usr/lib/mozilla needs to be 755 in rest i can't confirm it.

InfernalH · 2010-02-04 06:07:27

It is 755 already, so at least it's not /usr/lib/mozilla permission problem...

anonymous_user · 2010-02-04 06:12:59

If you copy the Flash plugin to ~/.mozilla/plugins (make the directory) does it work?

InfernalH · 2010-02-04 10:15:17

Sadly, no

[vidmantas@essdot ~]$ ls -l ~/.mozilla/plugins/
total 10062
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vidmantas users 10290936 Feb  4 12:13 libflashplayer.so

InfernalH · 2010-02-04 14:34:54

Maybe it's connected with flashplugin itself, because it doesn't work on other browsers too. On the other hand, I don't remember that anything new about flashplugin came with last update.

Damnshock · 2010-02-04 16:26:37

InfernalH wrote:

Maybe it's connected with flashplugin itself, because it doesn't work on other browsers too. On the other hand, I don't remember that anything new about flashplugin came with last update.

Don't know if it's related though I found out that flash makes my system unstable with the intel driver: throws out an error message and the screen freezes

anonymous_user · 2010-02-04 18:20:11

@InfernalH - Which Arch are you using: i686 or x64?

Labello · 2010-02-04 21:12:15

InfernalH wrote:

Maybe it's connected with flashplugin itself, because it doesn't work on other browsers too. On the other hand, I don't remember that anything new about flashplugin came with last update.

i have got the very same issue! flash suddenly stopped working without me upgrading flash or my browser(rekonq, arora, konqueror) flash stopped working in all three browsers. so... wtf!?

mugg · 2010-02-04 22:47:01

I had the same problem today, it was caused by the *-lcd packages i had installed from AUR for better fonts, if you check there are probably some other programs not working as well.
Personally i have switched to the cleartype fonts which did the trick, the fonts are similair looking but there is also another solution which you can find here : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89996

Good luck

Acecero · 2010-02-05 01:48:05

I installed the cairo-lcd libpng14 revision. Flash still works for me here.

InfernalH · 2010-02-05 06:25:11

anonymous_user wrote:

@InfernalH - Which Arch are you using: i686 or x64?

i686

About suggestion that *-lcd package has broken the flash - I think it's not, because I don't have any *-lcd packages installed here.

Installing libpng12 and libjpeg7 from AUR didn't work for me as well

TedP · 2010-02-08 17:02:48

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnashplugin.so seems to be the source of the problem. It appears to get loaded, even when the settings dialog box tells you that another plugin is loaded.

Moving libgnashplugin.so out of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (and ensuring that lib64flashplayer.so or libflashplayer.so was in that directory) fixed the problem.

Don't blame flash. Blame gnash.

Labello · 2010-02-13 09:09:48

but i don't have got this gnash-related file in mozilla's plugin-folder. the flashplayer.so is there but i still got no flash in any browser.

so where the heck is the problem? kind of annoying that no youtube is working! :3

no-daemon · 2010-02-13 15:36:38

Hi, I'm using Minefield, not Namoroka, however flash stopped working at about the same date.
Toggling to false in about:config 'dom.ipc.plugins.enabled' did the trick for me. Worth a try.

Labello · 2010-02-13 17:39:10

and what about konqueror?

linnegatan · 2010-02-14 07:42:09

I do not know if you use 64bit but could this be of any help " http://queleimporta.com/finally-adobe-r … #idc-cover "

Labello · 2010-02-14 09:06:54

nope i am on 32bit and flash has been working on my machine for about two years. could this issue be related to libjpg and libpng?

foutrelis · 2010-02-14 09:13:28

Maybe see if the following outputs anything interesting:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so ls

Labello · 2010-02-14 19:45:51

this displays the content of my homefolder as expected o.O

foutrelis · 2010-02-14 21:54:52

Alright, so no linking errors. Next, I'd try to see if the problem exists with a new profile and/or system user.

mwave · 2010-02-14 22:18:57

Hi,
This is what worked for me:

1) $ export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
2) $ firefox
.....
Once I established that was the fix. I edited /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh . Added the "export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1".
.....
Hope that helps. I found the fix on another thread.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-03 18:22:42

Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#2 2010-02-03 19:04:44

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#3 2010-02-04 06:07:27

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#4 2010-02-04 06:12:59

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#5 2010-02-04 10:15:17

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#6 2010-02-04 14:34:54

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#7 2010-02-04 16:26:37

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#8 2010-02-04 18:20:11

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#9 2010-02-04 21:12:15

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#10 2010-02-04 22:47:01

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#11 2010-02-05 01:48:05

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#12 2010-02-05 06:25:11

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#13 2010-02-08 17:02:48

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#14 2010-02-13 09:09:48

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#15 2010-02-13 15:36:38

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#16 2010-02-13 17:39:10

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#17 2010-02-14 07:42:09

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#18 2010-02-14 09:06:54

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#19 2010-02-14 09:13:28

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#20 2010-02-14 19:45:51

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#21 2010-02-14 21:54:52

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

#22 2010-02-14 22:18:57

Re: Flash not working in Firefox 3.6

Board footer