Monday, August 24, 2009

Adobe flash player and firefox 3.0 on rhel 5.3

I was having problems with the flash player working properly with firefox 3.

I noticed that if i ran firefox as root, the about:plugins showed:


Shockwave Flash

File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

However, my profile had different plugins.

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32


My simple hack was to change the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory to be a link to the nswrapper plugins:

 ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped ~/.mozilla/plugins


I am not sure why there was a difference between my root profile and user profile. 

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