Description of problem: If you visit any page with flash content Firefox suggests installing Flash plugin from Adobe, but install fails every time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Firefox 2.0.0.3 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to a web page with any flash content 2. Try to install Flash plugin by clicking on top of the browser content window. 3. Fails to install Actual results: Expected results: After firefox detects needed plugin I expect to download it and install it automatically. Additional info:
this is still a problem in f8t3 AFAICT. And I'm not having much luck manually installing Sun's java either. :(
Nothing to do with this bug, but why in the world you need to install Sun's Java? After Sun released Java under GPL, we have it now in Fedora under the name java-1.7.0-icedtea*1.7.0.0-0.14.b18.snapshot.fc8
I still get this bug with Fedora 8 test 3 with latest updates! I tested it on three systems and on 2 of them even after 10 and more tries it continuously failed! On one system on 4th attempt passed, after 3 failures... This is still an open bug, and even a serious one for novice users. Expert users will quickly install flash with any of possible ways but for new users this is a show stopper if they need their daily youtube fix! :(
I did a clean install of Fedora 8 RC3 and I still see this bug.
Suggestion: it is possible to make firefox work with yum so that it goes and gets http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, installs it and does "yum install flash-plugin -y" - after presenting user with licence agreement. Now we get presented with licence agreement but after we click "agree" it downloads the plugin and failes :( this is the video from Fedora 7, but it is the same on Fedora 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ayaoEUHZ4 ps. on fedora 7 it seamed that it installs after 10 ties, but on fedora 8 it doesn't.
(In reply to comment #5) > Suggestion: it is possible to make firefox work with yum so that it goes and > gets > http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, > installs it and does "yum install flash-plugin -y" - after presenting user with > licence agreement. > Will this install libflashsupport? I think it is reasonable to use yum if one wants flash audio output.
it installs libflashplayer.so
Is anybody working on this bug?
I don't think so.
Our current priority is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureXULRunner but feel free to submit a patch for this issue.
I can't code if my life depended on it :) I can only nag developers with my bug submits :)
We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0 pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many bugs and crashes. Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is in. If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please re-open this bug. Thanks and Happy Holidays
It is the same behavior in Firefox 3 now in rawhide. Matej have you looked at this issue? Can you please look at it if you haven't and tell me how can I contribute in order to get this bug fixed. I found one upstream bug that this looks related to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284057 Cheers, Valent.
I am sorry, but I don't have much to tell except that you can learn programming and fix it. We are now really busy with making FF3 working at all. Moreover, the primary method of flash installation (aside from installing swfdec ;-)) is to install it system-wide with yum via PackageKit (when it will be ready).
ps. this is not a bug for rawhide, it is F7, F8 and looks like it will be a F9 bug also :(
I got an idea how to fix this issue. If it is an upstream bug and can't be fixed immediately maybe there is other solution. Could there be made a firefox extension that installs flash plugin when needed? When a flash site is loaded the extension would ask user to choose if they have root priveleges and then it would install new yum repository and install flash codec via yum, if the user doesn't have or doesn't want that then flash plugin installs in only his home directory. How does that sound?
Since this bugzilla report was filed, we have seriously upgraded Gecko-related packages in Rawhide, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their distribution available. Closing this bug as CANTFIX. Please, reopen, if this bug is still reproducable on the latest update of your distribution. [This is mass-closing of bugs which seem to be too old and irrelevant anymore; we are sorry, if we are closing your bug in mistake; please, don't hesitate to reopen, if it is still alive issue.]
I updated two laptops that run rawhide and they both see this error. Reoppening. Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Now I get a error message window saying install.rdf file is malformed. I'll attach a screenshot.
Created attachment 294389 [details] flash bug
I started wireshark to capture packets and look for myself what is going on while installing flash plugin. I found out the url of the flash plugin and it is: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-linux.xpi I entered that in in firefox 3 and I still got the error message! So I downloaded the file and tried to install it localy - and it still fails :( Looks like the problem is with the hosted file at adobe.com :( can somebody please confirm this? Is there some way to notify Adobe so that they fix this issue?
I posted an upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416396 The insteresting thing is that it works ok on Ubuntu (as you can see by the report).
I am kind of sorry, but this really belongs upstream. Closing as CLOSED/UPSTREAM
I have flash installed on my rawhide system and works just fine. There was a link that FF used initially on my desktop before yesterday that because of the path it launched from, it didn't use the plugins correctly, but that seems to be fixed. I have icedtea and flash both installed and working just fine. I don't see the problem unless you mean specifically doing it from within firefox and using the ui?
Matej it would be helpful if you tried to reproduce bug or wait for somebody else before closing it. Mike how have you installed flash? What method did you use? This bug is about firefox ui based install - please read the bug report from beginning.
Can there be a script on Fedora desktop that says something like this: "Install Flash Player" that enables adobe yum repository, presents the licence and if users agree goes out and install the flash plugin.