Has anyone else noticed this?
I've been running a self-built, working 64-bit version of Seamonkey's 2.01a pre-release (alpha) version for the last six or seven months (because the "contributed" unofficial 64-bit build didn't work right and the official 32-bit release crashed all the time), and it's been working relatively well until recently, particularly in the area of plugins.
After updating to CentOS 5.2, I noticed that the flash plugin didn't work right. This might be due to a major change in nspluginwrapper - it is now included in the CentOS (RHEL) release, as opposed to being a download from rpmforge.
Problem is - it doesn't seem to work right. My flash plugin does not work. At all.
There was a new official release of Seamonkey (1.1.10) with an available contributed 64-bit build (haven't gotten around to the 1.1.11 revision yet), so I though, maybe this time it will work better. I pulled down this revision and installed it. Works great - except for the flash plugin. (Actually, I only know that the acrobat reader plug-in works, but the flash plugin definitely does _not_.) I tried again with 1.1.11 here at work (32-bits) and it seems to work just fine.
But, as of this morning at least, my home system absolutely does NOT work with the new nspluginwrapper, and the flash plugin does not work at all. This is true both on the 1.1.10 unofficial contributed 64-bit build, and also my home built 64-bit 2.01pre (with fresh source as of this morning).
Does anyone have the new (0.9.91.5) nspluginwrapper working with the flash plugin on a 64-bit install of CentOS 5.2 and Seamonkey?
Also, one of the "tricks" I learned with this whole setup was that the simplest way to "install" the plugins was simply to create symbolic links from /usr/lib64/mozlilla/plugins - I think that's right - to the relevant plugins directory. This worked until 5.2, or at least Seamonkey reports that the plugins are installed. (The AR8 plugin has serious problems, haven't gone all the way back to the AR7.9 plugin yet, and I haven't tested the mplayerplug-in yet, but the critical one is the flash plugin because so many web pages have flash videos on them these days.)
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
mhr