On 12/22/2014 03:44 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 12/22/2014 03:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 12/22/2014 02:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
And I asked on the Firefox newsgroup.

A guy over on the Firefox newsgroup wrote me off list
with how to do it.  I am waiting for his permission
to paste it over here.



Got permission, just leave his name off:

      yes. i am using it myself.

      from main menu;

            Edit > Preferences > Applications

      highlight "Content Type" you want to change, in "Action"
      column, press up/down pointers, select;

           Use VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.nn.n)
           (in Firefox)

      my system is CentOS 6.6, using firefox 24.8.0 and my 'vlc'
      plugin is 2.28.6.

      depending on your install of linux and 'vlc', the number will
      be different.

I removed flash and restart FF.  I tried loading a flv from disk and
it started VLC in a separate windows.

I also tried watching the Green Bay Packers highlights and got
mined in adds and spy utilities.  (The Packer won, by the way.)

-T



The details for Firefox 34.0.5, IA-32, are slightly different. I use current production Firefox, not the SL ESR version.
IA-32 SL 6x .

1.  Tools -> Add ons -> Plugins

Shockwave flash set to Never Activate in the menu choices

VLC multimedia set to Always Activate

2. Edit -> Preferences -> Applications

search for flash and use VLC (that may appear as "default" in some cases)

Before I did both of these steps, Firefox (after a quit and activate) refused to use VLC, but does now
except for the situation as follows.

I tried the URL below:

http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/help/en/flash/index.html

The test Adobe Flash Player Test did not work, with the diagnostic message: Flash not running.

The test Adobe Flash-Video Test forced a download of a FLV file that was then opened and handled by VLC .

Does anyone know why the first test failed and how to get around the issue with VLC ?

Yasha Karant

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