[SOLVED]Flash not working in firefox

kranti · 2014-07-05 14:04:50

Hi,

I have recently installed arch linux and I am a newbie/noob here. As suggested by wiki, I kept a 'builds/' directory in my home folder to install new packages. I first installed flash there, by downloading the '.tar.gz' file from "http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" However, I accidentally deleted it.

Now, whenever I try to visit youtube, it shows 'An error occured. Please try again.' I reinstalled flash plugin from pacman it, and it is showing as installed now. But still the site is not working. Moreover, when I type 'about:plugins' it shows Shockwave flash and FutureSplash Player, but not adobe flash. Isn't it supposed to show that?

My browser version is 30.0. Please let me know what other information I should supply.

Last edited by kranti (2014-07-19 17:59:08)

progandy · 2014-07-05 14:10:38

You can try to quit firefox, delete ~/.mozilla/firefox/{XXXXXX.PROFILE}/pluginreg.dat, reinstall flash from pacman, then try to run ff again.

Trilby · 2014-07-05 14:38:25

kranti wrote:

As suggested by wiki, I kept a 'builds/' directory in my home folder to install new packages.

I think there may have been some misunderstanding there. What wiki page are you referring to? You should use pacman for all package installation/management unless the package in question is only available in the AUR. Both firefox and the flashplugin are in the repos, so this 'unless' does not apply.

Vipermaseg · 2014-07-05 14:41:21

The builds/ directory you are refering to would be, in any case, to create AUR packages.

kranti · 2014-07-05 14:41:39

Thanks for the fast reply.

I did the above, and it's still not working. I also tested my flash by going to this site, and the test fails: "https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/". It says "A plugin is needed to display this content." I also went on "http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/" to check the plugins of firefox, and it shows that Shockwave flash is up-to-date.

Currently, I have three browsers installed: Firefox, Chrome, Chromium. Flash works in chrome, but not in chromium and firefox.

kranti · 2014-07-05 14:45:25

Yeah, I know that now that builds directory is for AUR packages. My mistake for not clearing that up. And initially, I went to adobe site, downloaded the ".tar.gz" file, unpacked it in ~/builds/ directore and then followed the instuctions in its readme.txt to install flash.

Now, I reinstalled it using pacman only.

Vipermaseg · 2014-07-05 14:47:08

Use about:plugins to actually see which plugins you have installed.
For flash in chromium to work: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chro … per-flash/

You need to clean up the mess that the vainilla flash intaller did and then install it properly from repos.

Last edited by Vipermaseg (2014-07-05 14:49:18)

kranti · 2014-07-05 15:19:45

Vipermaseg wrote:

Use about:plugins to actually see which plugins you have installed.
For flash in chromium to work: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chro … per-flash/
You need to clean up the mess that the vainilla flash intaller did and then install it properly from repos.

Installed the above plugin (I use yaourt to do that now) and rebooted, just for the heck of it. Still the flash is not working in chrome and ff. And I did type "about:plugins" in ff and "chrome://plugins/" in chrome. It is showing that flash is installed in both. But when I visit the adobe test site, it just displays a "Plugin not found" type message.

Should I reinstall ff and chrome?

kranti · 2014-07-06 10:42:01

Ok, I did the following now. I deleted .mozilla from my home directory, I deleted flashplugin, I deleted firefox. Then I first reinstalled firefox, then flashplugin, both via pacman. Still, when I go to adobe test site, it shows "Plugin not found" message. I've browsed mozilla help page, browsed the arch-wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/browser_plugins), and nothing seems to work. I think its not specific to a single browser, cause flash on opera is also not working. Funny thing is, "about:plugins" shows that shockwave flash is installed, but its not working. Really frustrated and moving on to chromium now.

(Earlier, I said flash wasn't working on chromium, but it was opera. Let me mkae it clear: I have 4 browsers - ff, opera, chrome, chromium. Flash works on chrome and chromium, but not on opera and ff.)

Last edited by kranti (2014-07-06 18:57:55)

kranti · 2014-07-07 18:02:11

Hello once again.

I have something to confess. Turns out, the flash is working fine. I tried playing on-line flash games, and they work out fine. It seems my problem is with youtube and adobe test site. Do I mark this topic as [solved] now? Cause, technically, it is not the flash that i giving me problems.

Trilby · 2014-07-07 18:34:36

It's your thread - if you consider it resolved, then by all means mark it as such. But if you want to work on figuring out why the issue remains with youtube and the adobe site, this is a good a place as any. You can always edit the thread title to ensure it'd be suitably representative of the information that would now be found in the thread.

EDIT: FWIW, I just went to the adobe site you linked, and it doesn't work for me either.

Youtube works fine for me though - though I don't use it often. Do all youtube videos fail, or just some? If the latter, can you provide an example?

(edit: remove some anit-adobe rant which may be inaccurate given the distinction below)

Last edited by Trilby (2014-07-07 22:06:00)

progandy · 2014-07-07 18:56:03

kranti wrote:

I did the above, and it's still not working. I also tested my flash by going to this site, and the test fails: "https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/". It says "A plugin is needed to display this content."

This is the Shockwave testpage. Flash and Shockwave are different things.
You want this: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ (there should be an animated flash logo and a box called "Version Information" which displays your flash version)

Last edited by progandy (2014-07-07 18:59:30)

kranti · 2014-07-19 17:55:30

progandy wrote:

kranti wrote:
I did the above, and it's still not working. I also tested my flash by going to this site, and the test fails: "https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/". It says "A plugin is needed to display this content."
This is the Shockwave testpage. Flash and Shockwave are different things.
You want this: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ (there should be an animated flash logo and a box called "Version Information" which displays your flash version)

I went to this site, and it worked. I was testing for the wrong software.. (Feel like a dumbass.)
But thanks!

And about youtube, I don't know why, but this video wasn't working when I checked before. (I love this song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4
I just did "pacman -Syu", and now it works. Don't know why though. I'll mark this thread as solved.

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