No flash-movies such as youtube in firefox 4

sonicboy · May 15, 2011, 5:10pm

Hi,

Yesterday I installed firefox 4 manually on my opensuse 11.3 pc with this guide: How to install Firefox 4 Final on Linux (Ubuntu) | johannes-eva.net . Since then, I cannot watch youtube or other streaming videos. It says it’s missing the flash-plugin and that I should download it. But this is installed, as other browsers as opera and also firefox 3.6 can manage these sites.
Also, other flash sites such as google docs don’t have any problems to load in firefox 4.

So, how should i resolve this?

jdmcdaniel3 · May 15, 2011, 5:19pm

I would look at post #84 in this message thread to see if it helps with Flash in Firefox 4:

Firefox on openSUSE 11.4 plays film clips badly

Thank You,

lenwolf · May 15, 2011, 6:31pm

Hi,

if you have several firefoxes, you’ll problay need to install the plugin for each one separately.

Check under tools->additional modules whether the plugin is installed or not…

HTH

Lenwolf

sonicboy · May 16, 2011, 8:28pm

@ jdmcdaniel3:

This solution didn’t change anything

@lenwolf:
In firefox 4, this plugin is missing like you said (it is present in firefox 3.6)
How can I install it?
I already tried to copy libflashplayer.so to ~./.mozilla/plugins but it didn’t work

thanx

caf4926 · May 16, 2011, 9:05pm

A strange choice of method.

Why did you not use the repo
Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3

loand · May 16, 2011, 9:11pm

try these :
Firefox - openSUSE

or mozilla website
Mozilla Firefox 4 Release Notes
and there on the right hand site corner is “linux” link to instalation file which runs in Ark (in opensuse 11.4 installs the firefox easier way that you did)

martin_helm · May 16, 2011, 9:14pm

caf4926 wrote:

> Why did you not use the repo
> ‘Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3/)
>
And I can confirm that with this repo on 11.3 flash works like a charm
without any additional tweaking on 11.3 (did my update a few weeks ago to
FF4 on the 11.3 machine).

sonicboy · May 17, 2011, 1:11am

A strange choice of method.

Why did you not use the repo
Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3

I did so, but I cannot see the whole package of firefox 4 in yast, only stuff like mozillafirefoxdevel, mozillafirefox-debuginfo, mozillafirefox-branding-upstream etc.

I don’t think I can download firefox 4 completely with this?

martin_helm · May 17, 2011, 1:54am

sonicboy wrote:
> I don’t think I can download firefox 4 completely with this?
>
That is not the way to do it in openSUSE. Add this repository to your
repository list (yast -> software -> software repositories -> add ->
community repositories -> selct mozilla) and after that in yast -> software
management choose the new version of firefox. That’s it.

martin_helm · May 17, 2011, 2:07am

And read this links to understand this
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Management
http://en.opensuse.org/Package_management
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

lenwolf · May 17, 2011, 8:25am

Hi, I generally go to:
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/browse/type:7
and install it from there.

HTH
Lenwolf

sonicboy · May 17, 2011, 4:19pm

Hi,

I know how Yast works, but I cannot see a complete package of firefox 4 in Yast. To make this clear, I have added a screenshot of it.

http://files.myopera.com/wouter205/albums/1943971/yast.png

Thx for your help

martin_helm · May 17, 2011, 4:42pm

sonicboy wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I know how Yast works, but I cannot see a complete package of firefox 4
> in Yast. To make this clear, I have added a screenshot of it.
>
> [image: http://files.myopera.com/wouter205/albums/1943971/yast.png]
>
> Thx for your help
>
You already found it it is MozillaFirefox (the first in your screenshot), to
update it click on the versions tab (at the bottom) and select the version
from the mozilla repo, it should then also tell you that it needs to change
two or three other packages and you accept it.

caf4926 · May 17, 2011, 5:44pm

Like this look
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/firefox_version_tab.png

sonicboy · May 17, 2011, 6:11pm

Ouch! It appears that I don’t know how yast works, my apologizes for that :shame:

Is the first time I manually upgrade a program, was not aware that there existed a version tab. Indeed, very simple, made me look a little bit stupid i guess

caf4926 · May 17, 2011, 7:09pm

Hey,
No worries