Hi Yasha Karant! On 2014.12.22 at 17:25:20 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote next:
> Before I did both of these steps, Firefox (after a quit and activate) > refused to use VLC, but does now > except for the situation as follows. > > I tried the URL below: > > http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/help/en/flash/index.html > > The test Adobe Flash Player Test did not work, with the diagnostic message: > Flash not running. > > The test Adobe Flash-Video Test forced a download of a FLV file that was > then opened and handled by VLC . > > Does anyone know why the first test failed and how to get around the issue > with VLC ? It failed because VLC is not flash. It's only a substitute that supports flash video files. E.g. you can watch youtube with it. But it won't run any other kind of flash. If you need full-featured flash plugin, refer to this guide on how to install flash-plugin 16 in firefox: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-get-chromes-latest-flash-player-to-work-in-firefox-on-linux/ I checked and it works on SL7 system. Needed to pull & rebuild ragel SRPM from fedora (rebuilds just fine) and install devel packages of alsa-lib cairo freetype glib2 gtk2 libconfig libevent libX11 uriparser mesa-libGLES then download fresh player from https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin build it (you'll need cmake and g++, obviously) and copy resulting libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ Install google chrome and run it once, go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to check that flash plugin version 16,0,0,235 is installed. That's it, restart firefox, fresh player will locate flash player 16 from chrome installation and will make sure it works in your firefox. Works without a hitch. -- Vladimir