[CentOS] flash and konqueror

Wed Jun 1 20:37:07 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>, redhat <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: [CentOS] flash and konqueror
> 
> I am stuck taking this stupid online training course from work. It just
> sits there doing nothing with firefox, so I pulled up konqueror, and tell
> it to lie and say it's IE. That works... until it gets to the content,
> which some HR moron is *positive* desperately needs to be in flash.
>
> I've gone into konqi's configuration, and told it to scan the correct
> directory for plugins, and yet a) I see no easy way to find out what
> plugins are installed, and b) it can't seem to see libflashplayer.so.
>
> Clues for the poor?


Hi again Mark.

this is what I have installed on C5.6

Installed Packages
Name       : nspluginwrapper
Arch       : i386
Version    : 1.3.0
Release    : 9.el5
Size       : 458 k
Repo       : installed
Summary    : A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins
URL        : http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
License    : GPLv2+
Description: nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use
            : Netscape 4 compatible
            : plugins compiled for i386 into Mozilla for
            : another architecture, e.g. x86_64.
            :
            : This package consists in:
            :   * npviewer: the plugin viewer
            :   * npwrapper.so: the browser-side plugin
            :   * nspluginplayer: stand-alone NPAPI plugin player
            :   * mozilla-plugin-config: a tool to manage plugins
            :     installation and update


Installed Packages
Name       : flash-plugin
Arch       : i386
Version    : 10.3.181.14
Release    : 0.1.el5.rf
Size       : 12 M
Repo       : installed
Summary    : Adobe Flash Player 7.0
URL        : http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
License    : Commercial
Description: Adobe Flash Plugin 7.0.68
            : Fully Supported: Mozilla 1.0+, Netscape 7.x,
            : Firefox 0.8+
            : Partially Supported: Opera, Konqueror 3.x

Do you have an external URL I can test my Firefox on, and 
see if that gives the same results as yours does?

HTH

Keith













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