I just figured everything out myself. I used 7.10 before, and installed the non-free flash plugin and it all worked fine. After I updated to 8.04 it all stopped working like peck described. Installing the newest official adobe flash player did not help either. And I did not have gnash or libflashsupport.so installed.
Two solutions: Solution1: 1,Installed the newest adobe flash plugin, find the file /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so, make it executable, if it is not 2. locate these files libnss3.so, libssl3.so,libsmime3.so, libplds4.so, libplc4.so, libnspr4.so.(usually they are in /usr/lib). Attention, you may have already libnss3.so.1d, libssl3.so.1d, libsmime3.so.0d, libplds4.so.0d, libplc4.so.0d, libnspr4.so.od. However libflashplayer.so strangely demands libnss3.so So to make the corresponding link, in my ubuntu 8.04 i did the following: ln /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplds4.so ln /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplc4.so ln /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/libnspr4.so ln /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib/libnss3.so ln /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib/libssl3.so ln /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.0d /usr/lib/libsmime3.so After these steps, it should work Solution 2, 1, if you do not want to bother yourself to these lib files tweak, download a binary from firefox website, extract them to a folder of your choice. 2, follow the first step in solution 1 3, start the firefox in the extracted folder and it should work To redocpot : To debug what is going on, start firefox from the shell, it will give you some hints to what went wrong. I found out these lib file dependencies via this method. cheers -- Flash stops working in firefox on ubuntu 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
