Flash in konqueror

[Guest bradenm]

I've had Flash happily working in 8.1 and 8.2. Then I reinstalled 9.0RC1, then upgraded to 9.0 final, and now I have no Flash in konqueror. It's installed fine, and works well in mozilla.

 

It appears in konqueror's list after nspluginscan, but whenever I visit a Flash site, the whole system slows down for 5-10 seconds, then comes up with "Unable to load netscape plugin for http://sitename/flashfilenamehere.swf":cry:

 

Any ideas? Anyone have Flash working in 9.0?

 

See this post: flash in konqueror on the old board.

[Guest]

I went back three days in cooker and there is no mention of a flash problem. Find the mime type for Flash and then grep Konqueror.

 

Bluebeard.

[ab2ms]

At two points I had that problem so I'll give you the two solutions that worked.

 

check the location of the plugin... mine is in $HOME/.netscape/plugins and see if the permissions are set properly for read. (every now and then I have a file get the permissions screwed up)

 

another time I had to uninstall nsplugins and re-install it... can't explain that one, but it worked once for me.

 

Hopefully one of these will get you somewhere. Todd

[Guest bradenm]

Permissions and locations are fine, reinstalling nsplugins didn't help.

 

Blueberad: what exactly do you mean? Where would I find the mime types?

[mystified]

There's an announcement here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/ about KDE3.0.4 being released. The comment under the story says that flash now works in Konqueror.

[ab2ms]

There must still be a wrong setting or something. I am running 3.0.3 and have flash working fine.

I'm racking my brain trying to figure it out. A lot has been said about this in different places, but flash CAN work in 3.0.3........ just one of those things I need to find out

[xoox]

I have the same problem. Flash works fine with Mozilla but not with Konqueror. Also, it does not work with KDE 3.0.4

[DragonMage]

Well, this is what I found out. Look at Setting -> configure konqueror ->netscape plugins. Int the directory listing, make sure that there is a directory called /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins in there. Well.. you can either do that or make a link of /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1 to /usr/lib/mozilla as root. That's why konqueror cannot find the plugin I guess, since there is no /usr/lib/mozilla directory in 9.0 Final.

 

Anyway, another thing is that the flash in www.macromedia.com doesn't work properly in konqueror. You can check other flash enabled pages for that instead. So if you go to www.macromedia.com and didn't see any flash, that could be the reason.

[xoox]

Well, the plugin directory does not seem to be the problem. Koqueror can find the plugins. It lists flash and realpalyer. It just can't load them. And it never works, no matter what web site I try.

 

Anyway, as long as this problem can't be solved, I use Phoenix. I have already imported my Konqueror bookmarkPohenix can play flash fast and without any problems. If Phoenix would integrate into KDE, it could be the perfect browser.