#Firefox flash plugin vista install
)ģ) Click a flash video, and look for the prompt that plugins are missingĤ) Install missing plugins, Verify the adobe flash installer dialog appears. Then it doesnt install.ġ) Point To Preview, by replacinng with: Ģ) Restart browser for kicks, and open a site with no flash installed (eg. After accepting the adobe installer EULA, it quickly goes to a PFS dialog page saying plugin isnt installed.
Should I open a new bug record to investigate the installerLocation/installerHash option for Firefox 3.0.11?Įither i'm verifying this wrong, or its confusingly broken. If Firefox 3 xpi's still won't allow us to install the Flash Player to system directories then maybe we should use installerLocation/installerHash to install the Flash Player via PFS. However, according to the following bug record it appears that those issues may have been fixed in the next version of Firefox (3.0.11): The installerLocation and installerHash PFS procedures did not provide a good user experience. The Firefox 3 xpi requirements did not allow us to install the Flash Player to system directories (system32 on Windows), so we did not implement Firefox 3 compliant xpi installers.Ģ. There were two reasons why the Flash Player was removed from PFS for Firefox 3 clients:ġ. Both of these statements appear to be true for all platforms. Firefox 2.x successfully installs via PFS. I am only able to reproduce this behavior using Firefox 3. If you would like to know more please look at this thread: When Firefox presents "Install Flash Player" then it enables adobe yum repository, presents the licence and if users agree goes out and install the flash plugin via yum command "yum install flash-plugin". If current method of install fails for Fedora there is the solution that would be made to work if Firefox plugin system got more flexible. But if you can convince firefox developers to extend how their plugin technology works so our users or anyone's users can chooseīetween open and closed flash plugins.well then. A fedora specific fix isn't that interesting to me. Jeff Spaleta suggested also this "If you can get firefox's plugin technology fixed such that it gives users a choice as to which flash implementation to choose.
#Firefox flash plugin vista free
If you aren't aware of the situation Fedora Project can't include anything in Fedora linux distribution that isn't free from patent rights - it has to be open and it has to be legal in order for Fedora to distribute it.
Then fedora would be most of the way there to telling people why we are so very dearly sorry that flash doesn't work out of the box. The abillity to make your plugin detection technology more flexible so fedora developers could easily redirect firefox users to a page we controlled with information concerning the situation with proprietary codecs and proprietary players needed to display flash and other online content. What is the correct procedure for suggesting new features? Here what lots of fedora developers think is crucial for Mozilla developers to address in Firefox: To have flash plugin installed and profit :) I have tried multiple 2.x versions and also 3.xb versions and I see this issue with all of them. Try to install Flash plugin by clicking on top of the browser content window. Go to a web page with any flash contentĢ. I have tried different Firefox versions on multiple hardware and on multiple Fedora versions and I still see this bug.ġ.