[CentOS] about:plugins <-Re: interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Mon Apr 4 13:07:02 UTC 2011


On 04/04/2011 08:41 AM Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
>> Of ken
>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:02 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: [CentOS] about:plugins <-Re: interview request for ppl who have
>> Shockwave/.Firefox working
>>
>> Under "Tools..." I have "Adobe Reader 9.3", "Adobe Reader 9.4"
>> (temporarily disabled due to testing), "Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2
>> Plug-in Compatible", "NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.3.0", and "Shockwave Flash
>> 10 0 r153", that's all.
>>
>> Now looking at about:plugins under "Shockwave Flash" it says:
>>
>>    File: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
>>    Version:
>>    Shockwave Flash 10.2 r153
>>
>> So to your question, the evidence seems to be saying that, yes,
>> Shockwave is the same as Flash, at least on Linux.  Or do you see
>> something different?
> 
> Well, kinda' different over here, at least on Firefox4 running on WinXP.
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> File: NPSWF32.dll
> Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
> 
> Shockwave for Director
> File: np32dsw.dll
> Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.8.612
> 
> Some differences are expected I guess, platform-wise. Just wasn't sure if 
> Shockwave and Flash were the same thing. Will be quiet now. 8-)

Well, this tells us that XP users are getting a higher version than us
Linux folks.  But we can't really get anything more than that from what
XP tells us... or?




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