Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:29:54 -0500 From: mfv <mrkvrg@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL Message-ID: <2557715.iUCYSf1lvg@gecko3.bs.net> In-Reply-To: <9486.1385329456@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <9486.1385329456@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Hello Ronald, I ran across the same problem trying to get flash to work with firefox after an upgrade. As a hack, the following finally worked for me: cd ~/.mozilla/plugins rm npwrapper.libflashplayer.so nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Hope it may work for you. Cheers ... Marek On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:44:16 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Having gotten past all the difficulties that related to Perl, I have > finally managed to update essentially all of my installed ports. (I > still have a small problem with the update for ffmpeg(2), but I'll > take that up later on.) > > Unfortunately, after updating all my ports I find that I now have a > problem with the flash plugins for both Firefox and Opera... and I > could use some help solving these two problems. > > After updating all my ports I have, among many many other things, all > of the following currently installed: > > firefox-25.0_1,1 > opera-12.16 > linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.327_1 > nspluginwrapper-1.4.4_2 > opera-linuxplugins-12.16 > > (Note: I use both Firefox and Opera, at different times for different > purposes.) > > After updating my ports, I dutifully followed the instructions here for > updating the flash support in Firefox (as I have done, many times before): > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html > > Specifically (and only) I executed this step: > > nspluginwrapper -v -a -u > > This produced the following output: > > Auto-update plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins > Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins > Auto-update plugins from > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin Looking for plugins in > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin Auto-update plugins > from /home/rfg/.mozilla/plugins > Looking for plugins in /home/rfg/.mozilla/plugins > > Then I quit and restarted Firefox. > > Unfortunately, after these steps entering "about:plugins" in the Firefox > location bar now shows that I have -no- plugins installed. Additionally, > upon visiting (in Firefox) a web page that I believe contains flash > material, I am getting a notification that I need to install the flash > plugin. > > So, my questions: > > 1) What did I do wrong? > > 2) How can I correct the situation and get flash working with Firefox > again? > > Separately and additionally, Opera also now does not seem to believe that > it has any flash pulgin installed either. Of course, I would like to > correct this problem also. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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