Does anyone have flash working with 64-bit Firefox 3?

I have installed gplflash, but it seems to prompt
complaints that my version of flash is too old.

I would expect Adobe flash could be made to work with
ndiswrapper, but I have yet to install that wrapper
and would prefer to avoid doing so unless I know it
would work.

Cheers!

jim b.

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On Friday 04 July 2008 01:23, someone who identifies as *Jim Beard* wrote
in /alt.os.linux.mandriva:/

> Does anyone have flash working with 64-bit Firefox 3?
>
> I have installed gplflash, but it seems to prompt complaints that my
> version of flash is too old.

Until the specs of the new Flash format are made open, the GPL'ed Flash
player will indeed yield compatibility problems with all those Flash movies
and animations created (with pirated software) by people who think that one
should always have the latest and greatest and that everyone does because
they themselves do...

Meanwhile, it's a matter of either waiting until Adobe opens up Flash
completely (insofar as this has not happened yet - I'm not at level with
the current state of affairs in that area), waiting until Adobe develops a
64-bit plugin for GNU/Linux - so far they (and Macromedia before them) have
always claimed that it was too much work to adapt Flash to 64-bit - or
using /nspluginwrapper/ with the 32-bit Flash plugin.

> I would expect Adobe flash could be made to work with ndiswrapper, but I
> have yet to install that wrapper and would prefer to avoid doing so unless
> I know it would work.

I take it you mean /nspluginwrapper/ instead of /ndiswrapper?/ ;-) Well, I
am currently not on a 64-bit system and I don't have Firefox 3 yet, but
from what I've heard, it does the job perfectly well.

Basically it loads the 32-bit Flash plugin into a 64-bit browser plugin
wrapper, similar to how /ndiswrapper/ loads a Windows driver into a Linux
kernel driver wrapper module, or how /Wine/ translates Windows ABI calls
into UNIX calls.

To your browser, the wrapper would be seen as any standardized plugin, and
only the wrapper knows that it's just a layer between the 64-bit
environment and a 32-bit binary. If the same 32-bit browser plugin works
inside a 32-bit Firefox, then it'll work perfectly with the wrapper inside
a 64-bit Firefox. ;-)

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On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:35:43 +0200
Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> wrote:

> I take it you mean /nspluginwrapper/ instead of /ndiswrapper?/ ;-)
> Well, I am currently not on a 64-bit system and I don't have Firefox
> 3 yet, but from what I've heard, it does the job perfectly well.
>
> Basically it loads the 32-bit Flash plugin into a 64-bit browser
> plugin wrapper, similar to how /ndiswrapper/ loads a Windows driver
> into a Linux kernel driver wrapper module, or how /Wine/ translates
> Windows ABI calls into UNIX calls.
>
> To your browser, the wrapper would be seen as any standardized
> plugin, and only the wrapper knows that it's just a layer between
> the 64-bit environment and a 32-bit binary. If the same 32-bit
> browser plugin works inside a 32-bit Firefox, then it'll work
> perfectly with the wrapper inside a 64-bit Firefox. ;-)

With "nspluginwrapper" installed running Firefox 3 64bit on Spring
2008.1 64bit you'll be prompted to install Flash9.024? plugin at
the first web page you open needing flash, just click on install
missing plugin button [or whatever it says] and latest flash 9.024?
will download and install direct from Adobe, it works well for me in
64bit Linux with "nspluginwrapper" to run flash enabled web pages and
play flash video's like at Youtube.

BTW the Flash 10.x beta 2 from Adobe is reported to be working as well
or better than 9.024

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"Patrick Phillips" <patrickp@prodigy.NOT> wrote in message
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> BTW the Flash 10.x beta 2 from Adobe is reported to be working as well
> or better than 9.024

Installed the Adobe Flash 10 beta 2 and its working fine.

Be sure to remove both flash 9 and the flash pulse sound support library
called "libflashsupport" if its installed [mine wasn't] before
installing flash 10

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Save the d/l RPM flash file to disk, double click, and select install.

The RPM also works with openSuse 11.0, but I don't see a Debian
installer
or DEB extension available.

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