Bug 708837

Summary:	enable flash and other plugins
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Heiko Adams <bugzilla>
Component:	midori	Assignee:	Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	kevin, maxamillion
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Description Heiko Adams 2011-05-29 19:59:42 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently browser plugins like flash doesn't work because midori is searching these plugins in /usr/lib/browser_plugins which doesn't exist

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
midori-0.3.6-1.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install midori
2. make shure flash plugin is installed
3. navigate midori to youtube or an other site using flash

Actual results:
Flash is not working

Expected results:
Flash should work

Additional info:
Creating a symlink /usr/lib/browser_plugins which points to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins solves the problem

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2011-05-29 20:31:50 UTC

Strange. The string "browser_plugins" doesn't appear even once in the entire midori source. ;) 

How did you see it was looking in this directory? 

What does 'which -a midori' and 'about:version' in midori report?

Comment 2 Heiko Adams 2011-05-29 20:44:52 UTC

I read at http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=16942 that midori seems to look for that directory and gave it a (successful) try.

'which -a midori' says: /usr/bin/midori
'about:version' says:
about:version

Versionsnummern in Klammern geben Versionen zur Laufzeit an.


Command line	midori
Midori	0.3.6
WebKitGTK+	1.4.0 (1.4.0)
GTK+	2.24.4 (2.24.4)
Glib	2.28.6 (2.28.6)
libsoup	2.34.1
libnotify	Yes
libidn	No
libunique	Yes
libhildon	No
Platform	Linux i686
Identification	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/534.26+ Midori/0.3
Netscape Plugins:

libtotem-cone-plugin.so	VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1)
libtotem-mully-plugin.so	DivXÂ® Web Player
libjavaplugin.so	IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.0.2 (fedora-2.fc15-i386))
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so	Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)
libflashplayer.so	Shockwave Flash
librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so	iTunes Application Detector
libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so	QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6
packagekit-plugin.so	PackageKit
nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so	Shockwave Flash
Video Formats:

H264	true
Ogg Theora	true
WebM	true

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2011-05-30 04:24:12 UTC

I have no idea what freebsd is doing, but fedora doesn't use that dir at all. ;) 

If you install flash via: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash

Does it work as you expect?

Comment 4 Heiko Adams 2011-05-30 09:45:54 UTC

My fault. Midori cheated me by deactivating plugins in its private browsing mode. When I run midori in normal mode all plugins are activated without /usr/lib/browser_plugins