On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:16:08 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Dale Snell wrote: > > > But you say that the sites you've visited require both flash and > > javascript. Do you have NoScript or something similar installed, > > that blocks javascript execution? If so, you'll need to unblock > > those sites. That may be enough to allow flash to work; at least > > that's been my experience. > > I've not known about NoScript so I doubt it's installed. This is a > standard Slackware x86_64 upgrade and both flashplayer and sound > worked in the 13.x distributions. Alas, I'm a Fedora boy, and don't know Slackware at all. Heck, I know more about Ubuntu/Debian than I do about Slackware. But it sounds like something in Slackware changed that screwed with your Firefox. Like I said, though, I don't know Slackware, and wouldn't know where to look. Hmm, I just did a bit of poking around in my system, and found that libjs.so and friends are in /usr/lib64. They're provided (in Fedora) by the package js-1.8.5-9.fc17.x86_64.rpm. I know this is going to sound silly, but similar things have happened: Do you have javascript installed? If it isn't, that would certainly account for your problems. (It *should* be installed by default when you installed Firefox, but packaging mistakes do happen.) I consider NoScript and Adblock+ to be essential accessories to Firefox. They block ads (obviously), and block all sorts of malware scripts. Both of them are well worth the few minutes it takes to download and install them. I also like ForcastFox, but that's not really an essential. I just like having the weather report on my FF menu bar. :-) > It's too bad that Adobe is taking the Microsoft route of not > playing with F/OSS OSes. What's worse, IMNSHO, is that too many of > those who create videos know only one or two proprietary tools and > don't care about the rest of us either. It's no great surprise. Heck, Adobe's support for their own low-or-no-cost software is generally not very good, even for the Windows versions. (I've used some of Adobe's Win32 software. I'll stick with Linux and F/OSS tools, thank you very much.) So I'm not surprised that when the economy tanked, they dropped Linux support. Especially given that the world is slowly moving to HTML5, and leaving flash behind. --Dale -- Lensmen eat Jedi for breakfast. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
