problem with flash plugin

Richard L. Hamilton

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Mar 21, 2008, 6:14:46 PM3/21/08

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Hasn't worked for me in awhile; unfortunately, since I don't
frequent sites with a lot of flash, I don't know what the
last version was that worked.

Currently not working with Opera 9.26, flash 9, running on
SPARC Solaris Express build 81. Plugin path has been reduced
to just /usr/lib/opera/plugins, which has the installation files
in it plus the same two files for flash that work fine with
firefox. Tools->Advanced->Plug-ins shows it handling the appropriate
MIME types, but when bringing up a page, one gets blank (grey) areas
with a "Click to activate this control" tip when one moves the cursor
over them; clicking has no visible effect, except that the tip stops
appearing until the page is reloaded.

This is the static version of Opera 9.26 for Solaris SPARC; it works fine
with for example the PDF plugin. Haven't tried Helix/RealPlayer. I
typically use the static version of the opera binaries since I probably
don't have the same Qt libs that the shared version was built with. ldd
shows the two plugin helper programs plus opera itself picking up system
libs for everything except libz, which is a reasonably recent (last
updated a couple weeks ago) copy from blastwave - the embedded run path
for opera checks /opt/csw/lib ahead of the default system locations. But
moving the blastwave lib out of the way and letting the system version be
found instead makes no apparent difference.

Any suggestions?

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen

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Mar 25, 2008, 4:50:43 AM3/25/08

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The current version of unix flash only works with gecko, by design.
We do have a (big and hairy) fix for this in the 9.5 version, which is
way too big and hairy to ever be added to 9.2x. Some of the early
versions of flash 9 did work (but are probably full of security
issues).

You may want to test a prerelease version of 9.5 and see if that
works.

eirik

Richard L. Hamilton

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Mar 25, 2008, 8:54:21 PM3/25/08

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In article <87hcevc...@opera.com>,

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <ei...@opera.com> writes:
> Richard.L...@mindwarp.smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) writes:
>
>> Hasn't worked for me in awhile; unfortunately, since I don't
>> frequent sites with a lot of flash, I don't know what the
>> last version was that worked.

[...]

>> Any suggestions?
>
> The current version of unix flash only works with gecko, by design.
> We do have a (big and hairy) fix for this in the 9.5 version, which is
> way too big and hairy to ever be added to 9.2x. Some of the early
> versions of flash 9 did work (but are probably full of security
> issues).
>
> You may want to test a prerelease version of 9.5 and see if that
> works.
>
> eirik

Thank you - that fits the scenario. Unfortunately, I can't get 9.50b
for Solaris SPARC from the web site - 9.26 is there, and 9.50b is still
there for Solaris Intel (which doesn't do me any good); that's it.

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen

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Mar 26, 2008, 3:55:48 AM3/26/08

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That's odd. I'm not really involved in that anymore though, so I
don't know if there's any good reason for it. Maybe it's just not
compiling properly on solaris sparc currently...

eirik