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03/16/09

Well, in firefox I was on hulu.com and when I went to go full screen it locked up on me. So, I disabled Flash hardware acceleration and that did the trick for me. Just right click on the screen and choose settings, uncheck the enable hardware acceleration in the display settings and try it again. Now full screen should work, if not you may have other issues that need to be addressed asap.

03/08/09

Another way to resolve the previous problem with Firefox is to install Flash 10 from the adobe site. It will install in the directory /usr/lib/flash-plugin goto that folder and look for the file libflashplayer.so copy the file into the folder /usr/lib/browser-plugins tell it to replace the old file. NOTE: you will need to do this as root. Then restart the system wide version of firefox from /usr/bin/firefox and see if the buggy flash trouble goes away. E-mail me and let me know how, or if this works for you. wolfspider@bigfoot.com That's it for now... Happy Linuxing!

03/08/09

How I fixed the Flash bugs in Firefox. I was getting a few strange errors when I started Firefox and some flash pages would just make the thing dump. So I downloaded the tar ball and unpacked it in my home directory. It's a stand alone program and it will run this way. It will squawk about not being the default browser and that's because you are running a different binary. It should pull in all the plugins and other settings from the installed version that comes with the distro. Then I downloaded the latest version of flash and installed it.
It will install in /usr/lib/flash-plugin folder. Open it and look for the file libflashplayer.so Now copy and past this file into /home/yourusername/firefox/plugins folder that was created when you unpacked the Firefox tar ball. This will add flash support to this Firefox and when you start it, it should not have any errors. To confirm this start this version of Firefox from a terminal and look for any error messages, if all went well you should see none. Try starting the other version in a terminal and I assure you, you will see some strange errors. If by chance you do not, count your lucky stars and disregard this blog all together. This is because your Firefox install is working as it should and you don't need to do this at all. This also worked for Flock. Well that's it for now, and as always...   Happy Linuxing!


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