Flash install fails in Browser

[Chris Gregan]

<Build: UME Daily 20081404>
<Environment: Xephyr>

Summary:
Flash install fails in browser.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Launch Browser
2) Go to Magnatune.com
3) Attempt to play music from listed songs
4) Click Get Plugin link
5) Agree to Adobe licence

Expected result:
After download, plugin istalls and music plays

Actual result:
Install error (See Screen Shot)

[Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)]

This could work at early stage but seems fail later, and I was thinking it is because midbrowser's id is different from firefox's, but I am not sure, Carl, pls. check.

[Chris Gregan (cgregan)]

Raising importance due to complete lack of Flash support.

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

Chris,

The flashplugin-nonfree for the browser can only be installed via apt-get at the moment. When you build the image, this should get installed automatically.

Is this good enough for the first release?

The other option is for us to look into what Asac did with Addon management support in firefox.

Please let us know how critical this is.

Carl

[Chris Gregan (cgregan)]

Carl,
I would like to see the plugin installation process fixed for users can add flash, java, etc. That being said, I do not believe this is vital to ship. I think that the customization projects will be able to work around this issue without any change.

We should definitely explore a fix with Asac to see if it can be included, but it should not hold us back.

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

Mark this as fix-later since the user will not encounter this problem as long as they use the stock image provide by us. We will look into an Addon managment extension created by Alexander Sack from Ubuntu and incorperate this in future update.

[Chris Gregan (cgregan)]

Flash plug-in now installs, but after browser restart, it still cannot play flash movies. I looks like the browser is not aware of the plugin. Add-on installer correctly classifies it as installed, no YouTube still complains about old version of Flash. Potential Java issue?