Getting flash working with Firefox

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:42:49 -0800
Clint Olsen <clint at 0lsen.net> wrote:

> I was on a website on Edmunds.com saying that I needed flash version
> 7 in order for this chunk to work.  So, I screwed around with the
> linux flash plugin, but attempting to make this work (linking all
> the dependent libraries required by the linux libflashplayer.so) in
> the plugins directory resulted in a bus error.
> 
> So, then I decided to try the firefox flash plugin.  The Edumunds
> site didn't seem to recognize this plugin since it still said I
> needed version 7.
> 
> The website:
> 
> http://www.edmunds.com/il/comingsoon/index.html?tid=edmunds...globalheader..7.*
> 
> 1) How do I make this work?  Should I even be attempting to use the
> Linux
>    flash plugin?
> 
> 2) Where is this documented?  I didn't see anything in the port.  I
> had to
>    cruise all over the web just to find out where to copy the linux
>    flash plugin etc in order to find out it doesn't work anyway.

The native version of firefox needs a linux wrapper, if you are going
to be using a linux plugin with it. Check out linuxpluginwrapper under
the www directory. If I recall correctly, it does not handle flash 7
well yet, so you may be better off with linux-opera.