No flash player in Firefox 3.0 beta 5/Hardy

[Louis]

Binary package hint: firefox

Hi
I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 Beta on my laptop when Firefox 3 beta 4 still was in the repos.
I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper and It works fine in Firefox 3 beta 4, but when I updated to Firefox beta 5 through Software Updater and now Flash doesn't work with Firefox 3.
Flash Player still works with firefox-2 and epiphany.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please make sure that flash shows up in your profile in the /.mozilla dirercttory.
There are a few bugs with same complaint when i come across them ill mark as a dupe if someone doesnt get to it first.

[Louis (louisdk)]

flashplayer-installer shows up in my .mozilla directory and it works fine in firefox-2 and epiphany but not in Firefox 3 Beta 5.

[Louis (louisdk)]

I run nspluginwrapper -i ~/.mozilla/libflashplayer.so and now it works.

[GeekGirl1 (my-e-mail1)]

I experienced the same error. Video has returned running:
    > nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

However, I have no sound. Will continue to investigate.

Also, problem is now mentioned in the Hardy Development and x86 64 bit users forums, so please consider a high priority: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=750770, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4687262#post4687262

Source package: flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.124.0ubuntu1

Version via 'apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree':
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 9.0.124.0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 9.0.124.0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.124.0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Hardy 8.04 development branch. 64 bit OS (x86_64).

[Louis (louisdk)]

First I install nspluginwrapper and then I get this error trying to install the flashplugin-nonfree package:
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2650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 90% 645.66 KB/s
 2700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 92% 479.00 KB/s
 2750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 94% 560.62 KB/s
 2800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95% 641.97 KB/s
 2850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 97% 672.40 KB/s
 2900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 777.82 KB/s
 2950K .......... .......... ... 100% 755.77 KB/s

17:05:06 (734.85 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3044538/3044538]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

But if I run this in a terminal (written by myself) it works:

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar zxfv install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cp install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla
nspluginwrapper -i ~/.mozilla/libflashplayer.so
rm -rf install_flash_player_9_linux/ install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

Then (re)start Firefox and now Flash works (for me)
I have no problems with sound when Flash is installed.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please run the newest version of flash and you should no longer need libflashsupport for sound with pulseaudio, Please confirm the newest Ubuntu flash works as expected.
As for the firefox not using it this will be fixed before release its a known issue, its installing into the firefox-2 profile instead of firefox-3.0 or even would be nice for it to be put in both.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

fixed by flashplugin-nonfree update.