[MASTER] In Hardy plugins do not install for Firefox 3 only present in firefox-2 profile

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I uninstalled the Adobe Flash player to test how well Gnash was in Hardy, and let Firefox guide me through installing Gnash. After successfully installing the Debian package and restarting the browser, Firefox still prompts me to install a Flash plugin.

about:plugins reveals that Gnash is not even listed as a MIME handler for anything, so I suspect the problem may be in Gnash.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 9 16:20:49 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-386 i686

[Anders Wennström (anders-w89)]

I use Hardy Heron Alpha 6 and Firefox 3 beta. I installed gnash and flash. I tried to watch movies at youtube and there is only a blank black screen and nothing happens.. Annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Curtis Lee Bolin (curtisleebolin)]

Here is a workaround for all you hardy / firefox-3.0b4 users. This will also work with other versions of firefox. Just change the destination directory.
The problem is that firefox is using "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4" while gnash is installing to "/usr/lib/firefox". I am sure once hardy is released firefox will again use "/usr/lib/firefox".

NOTE: Also remove any other files with "flash" in the name from the "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/plugins" before running the command below to remove any previous installs of Adobe flash.

sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/plugins/

Good Luck and happy youtubing

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Curtlee2002, did you read what t6he complaint was or are you just posting that work around for all plugin bugs?
the complaint was flash and gnash dont work but it could be beccause hes not using Ubuntu's version of gnash/flash hes using debians.

Alexander Jones,
Please remove all instances of flash and gnash and please install Ubuntu's version of each, both packages are in Ubuntu repos.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Alexander Jones,
Please update tp latest release of firefox in Hardy. Version firefox-3.0_3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 and let us know if this problem persits.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

I already was using Ubuntu's versions of Gnash, but I will try this again
later this evening.

[rp (peinthor)]

i also wanted to try gnash today, installed gnash and deinstalled the macromedia freeflash plugin.
same problem, but the workaround does also not work.

rp@huriana:/etc/alternatives$ dpkg -l | grep firefox
ii firefox 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
ii firefox-3.0 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla

rp@huriana:/etc/alternatives$ dpkg -l | grep gnash
ii gnash 0.8.2-0ubuntu2 free SWF movie player
ii gnash-common 0.8.2-0ubuntu2 free SWF movie player - common files/libraries
ii mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.2-0ubuntu2 free SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives

[rp (peinthor)]

works after i set the right link to /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so

[Curtis Lee Bolin (curtisleebolin)]

John Vivirito, did you read what the complaint was?
He didn't say he was using a package from Debian's repository. He said "Debian package" which is what .deb files are for Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

The workaround I posted should be fine. It has worked for me on 9 of my computers all running hardy: 3 AMD64's, 2 ppc's, and 4 x86's

[supercompman (supercompman)]

I've also experienced this problem. It looks like the java (both 5 and 6) plugin is having the same issue: the plugin link is placed in a directory that the browser never looks in for plugins.

[eldad (eldad-a)]

 curtlee2002 wrote on 2008-03-16:
sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/plugins/

worked like a charm for me, thanx curtlee!

Linux uname-laptop 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 22:31:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Roberto Cássio Jr. (rcsdnj)]

What else is needed to mark this bug as "confirmed"?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Edited description to better fit problem and added this bug as a master bug for all dups of this issue to be marked as dup of this bug.

[Nobre (nobre-it)]

Its works for me... Firefox 3 beta 5
I had a .deb that I made for flash plugin, without md5sum check...

http://guigouz.googlepages.com/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.666_i386.deb

Its install without problems... nice...
After this... link the /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins
Done! Its working for me on Hardy Heron 32bit version!

[Robert (robrwo)]

Firefox 3b5 seems to be working with flash now. I assume on of the updates in the last few days has fixed it on my system.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please dont post unsupported .debs on bug reports because than we cant gather more info if needed and bug can be closed without being fixed.
Please reopen bug if this is not fixed for you with latest updates.
Closing due to above comment

[StiveG (stive-z)]

Had the same problem with Hardy, Firtefox 3.0 beta 5. 64 bits.

I removed gnash and the shockwave flash player started working!!

There is something wrong with Gnash IMHO

[svenmeier (sven-meiers)]

Gnash was working in my system, although flashplugin-alternative.so was located in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ only.

Sound worked fine, wowever the videos were always black. After installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, this was fixed.

Gnash-common suggests to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, should this be a required dependency?