Re: Shockwave Flash

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Anyone know what sort of barnyard animal you have to sacrifice to get
> the flash plugin for netscape to work. I've tried the official plugin

Chickens don't work. Taste nice though ;o)

> and another one, both just cause Netscape to lock as soon as I find some
> flash stuff. Annoyingly I had it working a while ago but then I
> upgraded netscape and now it doesn't even if I change back to the old
> netscape. about:plugins says it's there 

What version of Netscape did you upgrade to? To make mine work, first I
installed Netscape 4.7, then in /home/craig/.netscape/plugins, I put
libflashplayer.so

So far so good. I presume this is what you've done, although this is
per-user. Anyway, onto edit/preferences/netscape/applications

Make sure you have an entry called:

application/x-shockwave-flash

When you edit it, make sure its set to run the plugin called Shockwave
Flash.

That should work. If this is what you already have done, then sorry for
wasting your reading time :o) This is how mine worked anyway. If it isn't
useful in this case, then at least it might be useful to someone??

There we go then,


Craig

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