Howto: 64bit Firefox And Flash

All the threads I've seen suggest running 32bit Firefox, but I was happy with 64bit Firefox. It was just missing Flash player for things like youtube.

Here's all I needed to do:

- Make sure you have an update source or suse install source in yast.
- Install Macromedia Flash player (suse sources, yes, it's 32 bit)
- Exit software install, and go to install sources.
- Add the build service source for Mozilla (http://software.opensuse.org/downloa...openSUSE_10.2/)
- Go back into software install and install nspluginwrapper. It will have a dependency on the 32bit viewer when you install the 64bit
wrapper.

You're done, run over to youtube and verify it works for you. (I saw comments that you need to install nspluginwrapper after Flash,
I did not try to install them in one pass, so if you do, and it works, let us know!)

Good stuff. This has kept many from switching to 64 bit.



Moved to Tips, Tricks & Tweaks by me.

I did a Smart update & somehow wound up with 64-bit Firefox, remembered this post & bingo >> 64-bit Firefox with flash. BTW got an added bennie = speed, no doubt, Eye4you is much faster IMO.

Great find!

This one should be a sticky at the top!

Brilliant!

Even works on 10.3

I just want to ask you something if it is not having flash but on our computer we do have the installed even though 64 bit mozilla firefox will not play the youtube?

So why was my 64 bit system working almost out of the box?

I just installed my usual multimedia stuff via packman and yes flash too - but it all just worked.

My FF is 64

Only problem I have is with some Java applets.

All the threads I've seen suggest running 32bit Firefox, but I was happy with 64bit Firefox. It was just missing Flash player for things like youtube.

Here's all I needed to do:

- Make sure you have an update source or suse install source in yast.
- Install Macromedia Flash player (suse sources, yes, it's 32 bit)
- Exit software install, and go to install sources.
- Add the build service source for Mozilla (http://software.opensuse.org/downloa...openSUSE_10.2/)
- Go back into software install and install nspluginwrapper. It will have a dependency on the 32bit viewer when you install the 64bit
wrapper.

You're done, run over to youtube and verify it works for you. (I saw comments that you need to install nspluginwrapper after Flash,
I did not try to install them in one pass, so if you do, and it works, let us know!)


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Can somebody dumb this down for a stupid noob (windows convert)?

I have Suse 10.3, Firefox 2.0.0.6, I think I installed the flash plugin. At least in YaST, flash-plugin (9.0.115.0) and flash-player (9.0.48.0) are shown as installed software. The only place I see anything about flash in aboutlugins in firefox is the video/flv MIME type under the Totem Web Browser Plugin. I can't remember if Totem is something I installed or not.

I did install nspluginwrapper (after installing flash), and it's listed as installed in YaST.

It sounds like your instructions are simple enough, but I've obviously misunderstood something since flash still doesnt work.

Thanks,
Tom

Can somebody dumb this down for a stupid noob (windows convert)?

I have Suse 10.3, Firefox 2.0.0.6, I think I installed the flash plugin. At least in YaST, flash-plugin (9.0.115.0) and flash-player (9.0.48.0) are shown as installed software. The only place I see anything about flash in aboutlugins in firefox is the video/flv MIME type under the Totem Web Browser Plugin. I can't remember if Totem is something I installed or not.

I did install nspluginwrapper (after installing flash), and it's listed as installed in YaST.

It sounds like your instructions are simple enough, but I've obviously misunderstood something since flash still doesnt work.

Thanks,
Tom
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I had the same problem and had to tell the nspluginwrapper where the flash plugin was. I opened a terminal and switched to the root user with the su command and did the following...

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Then flash player worked for me in firefox. I'm guessing the file is in the same place for you, so that command will probably work as is.