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Firefox plugins for Fedora 17

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    Firefox plugins for Fedora 17

    Out of the box Fedora 17 doesn't come with what they consider "nasty proprietary" plugins so I added some.

    I've got Youtube working fine, but not for embedded videos here on CUK e.g. the Mars Rover landing one.

    That displayed the image and FF asked me to install Adobe Flash which I did, but now I don't even see the image.

    FF is now saying that some plugins need installing, but helpfully doesn't actually name any of them. Saying yes to an offer to install them just comes up with "No plugins found".

    Obviously this is of utmost importance. How else can I see videos posted by CUK members?

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    Flash plugin for Fedora

    You probably meant Flash plugin for Fedora (and condolences for using such a bugged distro). How did you install Flash? I usually unpack the latest Flash binary (make sure you are using the correct one, either the 32 or 64 bit) from Adobe and as root:
    Code:
    cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
    Then restart Firefox.

    Another thing I'd do is to uninstall the Firefox package from Fedora and just unpack the relevant binary from the Mozilla repository into either your home directory or /opt for all users.
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      #3
      Probably YouTube is working via HTML5 video meaning Flash isn't needed, but the vBulletin forum software used here only works with Flash.

      As this is also a pain when using an iPad I'll see if it's possible to get vBulletin's video embedding working with HTML5 as well as Flash, which would make life better for everybody

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        #4
        Thanks gents.

        I had tried installing Flash using the Adobe website, but then looked in the Software Add/Remove software thingy and installed from there.

        Adobe Flash Plugin 11.2.202.236

        A logout/login sequence may have helped. Dunno, but it's working now.
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