When I start up Firefox and go to a page that requires flash, the flash app doesn't actually load. Even lsof shows that Firefox hasn't loaded the flash player. But, if, while Firefox is already loaded, I then go and even touch the player, e.g., by running "sudo touch /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so", then magically it starts working, though I do have to reload the page that has the flash application. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unload all of Firefox (e.g., reboot, quit, whatever) 2. Restart Firefox 3. Go to page that uses flash Actual Results: Flash app just doesn't show up. I still get the "block" tab from the flash-block plugin, though, when I hover over where the flash is supposed to be. Expected Results: Load libflashplayer and run it. 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I have the same problem here. Not only when I start up Firefox, but also when I have Firefox running for some time. Like it just forgets where the adobe-flash player or libs are. I'll attach emerge -p for mozilla-firefox and adobe-flash plus emerge --info.
Created attachment 205903 [details] "emerge -p mozilla-firefox adobe-flash" plus "emerge --info"
(In reply to comment #1) > I have the same problem here. Not only when I start up Firefox, but also when I > have Firefox running for some time. Like it just forgets where the adobe-flash > player or libs are. > > I'll attach emerge -p for mozilla-firefox and adobe-flash plus emerge --info. > Your xulrunner backend is being confused by both plugins, disable 32bit if you are building and using source version of firefox.
So... this is a bug in xulrunner, then? There should be no reason I'm aware why I can't have both 32- and 64-bit installed, especially if I'm running Firefox (compiled from source as 64-bit) and, say, 32-bit opera or other binary-only browser that can load Mozilla plugins (say pre-alpha versions of Chrome). Each would load the correct flash. (And, as I mentioned, konqueror doesn't face this problem, it apparently can always load the correct flash.)
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I have the same problem here. Not only when I start up Firefox, but also when I > > have Firefox running for some time. Like it just forgets where the adobe-flash > > player or libs are. > > > > I'll attach emerge -p for mozilla-firefox and adobe-flash plus emerge --info. > > > > Your xulrunner backend is being confused by both plugins, disable 32bit if you > are building and using source version of firefox. > I will give this a try and will report back here if I notice any change.
As far as I'm aware, this will only happen if you have both 32b and 64b plugins installed *AND* also use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to wrap the 32b one so your 64b browser sees it. If you tell nspluginwrapper not to wrap your 32b flash plugin, I think it should be safe to have both installed simultaneously.
(In reply to comment #6) > As far as I'm aware, this will only happen if you have both 32b and 64b plugins > installed *AND* also use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to wrap the 32b one so > your 64b browser sees it. > > If you tell nspluginwrapper not to wrap your 32b flash plugin, I think it > should be safe to have both installed simultaneously. > This isn't applicable to me since I don't have nspluginwrapper installed. However, I reinstalled adobe-flash with USE="-32bit" and so far I don't encounter any problems.
Too bad, the problem still persists. It occurs when I open a new instance of Firefox or when it has been up and running for some time. Flash content just leaves a blank space. When I re-emerge flash and hit F5 in Firefox, everything shows up as normal Current way of installing adobe-flash: know-where-to-run etc # emerge -a adobe-flash These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.32.18 USE="64bit (multilib) -32bit" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB I have no clue what's causing this.
Deleting ~/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt and ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so solved this problem for me. Amd64 system, firefox-3.5.2
Found the same solution as Juanlu. I got it while running FX from the command line putting out a lot of errors while loading a website with flash. The error messages where complaining about a wrong ELF file "libflashplayer.so" in ~/.mozilla/plugins/.
(In reply to comment #10) > Found the same solution as Juanlu. I got it while running FX from the command > line putting out a lot of errors while loading a website with flash. The error > messages where complaining about a wrong ELF file "libflashplayer.so" in > ~/.mozilla/plugins/. > Yes, this is how I found the solution. Thanks for your explanation.
Yes, if you have a locally-installed plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ it will most certainly interfere with your system-installed plugin. Delete it and all should be well.
