On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 23:55 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
I am just bringing up f9, and am having problems with FireFox. Normal things seem to display OK, but film clips dont, rather I get a screen saying that I need the flash player.
If I go thru the button pushing to get the flash player and try the film clip again, Im right back where I started, being told that I need to load the flash player.
I've rarely ever got that (*) to work on any browser, on any OS. It nearly always fails in one way or another: It goes through the motions, but won't start installing, or whatever's installed doesn't work.
* Getting Flash to install from a webpage that says I need to add a plug-in, and it tries to arrange it.
What has worked just about flawlessly for me, is to install the Adobe repo, go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ pick the YUM for Linux option, download and install it. Then, in the command line, as root, do: yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport
Afterwards, any time you do a yum update, or use the updating graphical doodah that notifies you from the taskbar panel, it's self maintaining.