Flash Player not working in PM, but working in Firefox

[ncosmann]

Hello all,

I'm sure this is a common issue and a simple one at that, but for some reason I cannot get Flash working in PM and am completely stumped as to why.

I'm using 64-bit Slackware, and apparently my version of PM was automatically installed by the script as the 64-bit version. I know on this page: https://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-win64.shtml there's mention of certain plugins only working for the 64-bit version of Windows 7 and later, but that seemed to imply that it only applies to Windows.

Anyways, I have installed Flash using various methods - the Slackbuild, Alienbob's package, and just manually extracting the tarball and copying over libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins to be absolutely sure things were working right. Still cannot get Flash working in PM, but for some reason it is working perfectly fine in Firefox.

So what could be going wrong??

EDIT: I've also tried getting Fresh Player to install, to much frustration.

I've run

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./configure --enable-gles2

when installing Mesa, but despite this when I run

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cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo

as instructed on the Fresh Player github, it still complains that I don't have glesv2 despite having enabled it to install with Mesa and completing the installation of Mesa. If someone knows anything about this, that would be equally helpful.

[andy80]

I am not sure about Slackware, but for openSUSE I enabled the plugins by creating the softlink /opt/palemoon/browser/plugins -> /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

Probably you have to do something similar but with target /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

[squarefractal]

Either the above, or you can also run this as root:

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cat << EOM > /etc/profile
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
EOM

[ncosmann]

I am not sure about Slackware, but for openSUSE I enabled the plugins by creating the softlink /opt/palemoon/browser/plugins -> /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

Probably you have to do something similar but with target /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

I suppose that could work, but here isn't a "plugins" directory in /opt/palemoon/browser/.

Either the above, or you can also run this as root:

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cat << EOM > /etc/profile
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
EOM

What would this do exactly?

[andy80]

I suppose that could work, but here isn't a "plugins" directory in /opt/palemoon/browser/.

This is OK; when you create the soft link via the command (as root)

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ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins /opt/palemoon/browser/plugins

you will have a "symbolic directory" called plugins in /opt/palemoon/browser/, as needed.

Either the above, or you can also run this as root:

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cat << EOM > /etc/profile
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
EOM

What would this do exactly?

This would put "export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins" inside /etc/profile.
However, this would remove the previous content of /etc/profile and I think it is better to append "export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins" to /etc/profile.local or to create the file /etc/profile.d/palemoon.sh containing "export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins" (without "")

[Zootal]

I use 64 bit Slackware.

If you put your plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, they WILL NOT WORK.

If you put your plugins anywhere under ~/.mozilla, they *might* work.

The correct way to do this in Slackware 64 bit is to put them in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. 64 bit or not, your browser still looks in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib64. I went round and round with this before finally realizing that PM looks in the 32 bit lib directory, whether you are running 64 bit or not.

Put libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

If you need java working, you need to put a symlink in the same directory to <java install directory/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so. I put my java in /usr/local/java, so my symlink points to /usr/local/java/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so. You do this and Presto! Java magically starts to work!

Try that and let us know if it helps