[SOLVED] Firefox plugins

[oldbiddie]

I seem to have installed all available plugins with MCC but for some websites I keep getting a message to say I need another plugin. Where do I find it?
TIA

[oldcodger]

Without knowing what the plugin is it's a bit difficult to say where you would get it from

[oldbiddie]

OK. I tried to visualize a youtube video and it tells me I don´t have the right plugin for HTML5 Video

[doktor5000]

@oldbiddie, for you too: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Forum_Rules#User_rules

provide enough relevant details and context information about problems

You didn't even tell which Mageia version, which Firefox version and which sites and/or plugins you have problems with.

My crystal ball has troubles to find the necessary informations to help you

EDIT: For HTML5 there's no plugin needed for Firefox, support is built-in. Mind to give a link?

[n00biest]

may be you should try urpmi, rather than MCC ... some packages are not available with MCC, dunno why, someone else will told you ) . Keywords like "firefox-plugin" or "mozilla- plugin"...
Else : try "flash", in MCC.

[oldbiddie]

sorry: mageia 2
firefox 10.0.4

I received a ecard ( Jackie Lawson) which I could not open and also a youtube email which I deleted but could not open either because I needed a HTML5 plugin and here a rendom one I cannot open http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqZSr14Q04 (no idea what it is!)

[oldbiddie]

may be you should try urpmi, rather than MCC Keywords like "firefox-plugin" or "mozilla- plugin"...
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just tried. it installed a few things, too quick to know which and said ´gnash´ was already installed. Doesn´t seeme to have changed anything

[oldbiddie]

The urpmi firefox-plugin solved one problem: some publicity square in the page of a forum. But the youtube link still cones up as a black square. Jacquie Lawson cards still ask me for a plugin

[Lebarhon]

You didn't even tell which Mageia version, which Firefox version and which sites and/or plugins you have problems with.

My crystal ball has troubles to find the necessary informations to help you

The problem is that Firefox always tells a plugin is missing without saying which one !

[oldbiddie]

Yes, they never say which one is missing. A crystal ball may be useful after all.

[zugunder]

As for the youtube problem - do you have installed the both gnash and flash plugins for FF? Get rid of gnash and install a proper flash-player-plugin package. I think that youtube does not require anything else... BTW, which version of FF do you have installed?

[oldbiddie]

firefox ESR 10.0.4 that comes with M2

[zugunder]

Hi, same FF here on Mageia1 and I have only 2 plugins installed: OpenJDK IcedTea and Shockwave Flash (the both from the official repos). No problems with youtube, including the link you provided. Do you have any other add-ons enabled that may interfere? Smth like No Script, etc, that blocks flash animation as well?

[oldbiddie]

I have now downloaded Adobe flash player and it works! thank you all

[doktor5000]

may be you should try urpmi, rather than MCC ... some packages are not available with MCC, dunno why, someone else will told you ) . Keywords like "firefox-plugin" or "mozilla- plugin"...
Else : try "flash", in MCC.

That's just not true. The only problem is the default filter in software management is set to "Packages with GUI" which should be switched to "All" on first run. Then there is no difference what softwaremanagement or urpmi displays.

For Flash, there's flash-player-plugin, did you install that or download directly from Adobe? Maybe you want to have a look at viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

[yankee495]

If your browser still wants to play it with HTML5 you can opt out or join youtubes HTML5 trial here:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

At the bottom of the page, leave or join HTML5 trial.

[oldbiddie]

For Flash, there's flash-player-plugin, did you install that or download directly from Adobe? Maybe you want to have a look at viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

directly from Adobe. I read the page. Thanks