[cw-discuss] Linux/Windows Flash player conflict

[Matt Jordan]

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
>> From your KDE/GNOME menu, click the "CrossOver", "Configuration".
>
> Select the bottle which your flash is installed (I assume win98) and
> click "configure".
>
> Go to the "plugin" section and simply disale any plugin (make sure the
> small box is white).
>
> Click OK, click Exit, restart your Firefox.
>
> In your firefox, type the address:  about:plugins
>
> Go down in the page to the "Shockwave Flash", and make sure that the
> line below is something like "libflashplayer.so" and version 7 or 9.
> If it is, then you should be able to use the native Linux flash
> plugin.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Hetz
>
> On 1/16/07, Matt Jordan <matt at mattjordan.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying out CrossOver to see if I can run my pet Windows app,
>> KoolMoves (a Flash authoring tool I use for making animated cartoons).
>> So far that part is going swimmingly.  I'm a beta tester for KoolMoves
>> and have the next release, 6.0, running almost flawlessly under
>> CrossOver on my Ubuntu Edgy.
>>
>> In order to take full advantage of KoolMoves (KM), I did have to install
>> the Windows version of the Flash player, as KM couldn't recognize the
>> Linux version (presumably since it lives beyond the "C drive").  The
>> problem is that now, when I'm just surfing the web normally with FireFox
>> on Ubuntu, any Flash content triggers CrossOver and the Windows plugin.
>> I've tried resetting the associations on the Linux side and in the FF
>> browser, but upon visiting a Flash page the FF setting reverts to the
>> CO/Windows Flash plugin.  It's mostly an annoyance - especially since
>> the Windows version can't seem to play but one page or tab of Flash at a
>> time - but it's one I'd like to solve.  (Basically, I want CO to be
>> quiet unless I'm specifically using it to do something, namely, my work
>> in KoolMoves.)
>>
>> I'm sure there must be some way to go in and stop the Windows plugin
>> from taking over, but I don't know where to look.  Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Jordan
>>
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>
Thanks to Hetz Ben Hamo and Jeremy White for both pointing out the 
ability to disable plugins in the configuration menu.  The long and 
short of that approach: it works to prevent the Windows plugin from 
"taking over" my Linux web surfing, but it puts me back to square one 
with respect to running KoolMoves.  That is, KoolMoves requires the 
plugin for complete functionality.  (Effects previews and so forth use 
the plugin and KM apparently doesn't "know" to look beyond the "C drive" 
for the Linux version.  I'm inquiring elsewhere to see if I can tweak KM 
to find the Linux plugin, since that would also solve my problem.)

At this point, then, my best solution is to disable the plugin when my 
priority is web surfing and re-enable it when my priority is KoolMoves.  
Not elegant, but workable.  Is there anyway, though, to have my cake and 
eat it too?  Anyway to enable the plugin, but only for the COO 
"environment"?

Alternatively, how can I get the Windows version working correctly with 
respect to web surfing?  Right now it only functions on one page or tab 
at a time.  If I have multiple tabs open, for instance, and more than 
one of those have flash content, only the oldest tab displays the flash; 
all others display gray boxes where the flash should be.  Closing the 
oldest flash-containing tab results in flash now working in the next 
oldest tab and so on.

This happens in the context of using my Linux FireFox to surf the web.  
Maybe it would go away if I used a browser from COO as well, but I don't 
want to go that far.  (I really just want to use COO to run KM and 
nothing else at this point; I'm very happy with my Ubuntu.)

So, to recap, is there either a) a way to get the COO Flash plugin to 
work only within the COO "environment" or b) a way to get the COO Flash 
plugin to work 100% correctly when called by the Linux browser?  Either 
one of those would be improvements over the enable/disable approach.

Thanks again,

Matt Jordan