[cw-discuss] Flash 9 plugin

[James Richard Tyrer]

Francois Gouget wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jeremy White wrote:
>> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> There appears to be a massive bug in the Flash 9 plugin for Linux.  It 
>>> doesn't work with GTK-2.12.
>>>
>>> So, the Windows plugin is now relevant.
>>>
>>> Installing Flash with Crossover failed
>> It did?  How?  I'm running Flash 9 right now, in IceWeasel, on
>> my Etch 64 bit system.
> 
> Well James is right: there are issues with Flash Player 9 in CrossOver 
> 6.1.0. The thing is that they changed where they're putting their 
> plugins so that they were no longer detected by CrossOver. I believe 
> that also caused CrossOver to fail to detect that Flash Player was 
> installed, which results in an 'installation failed' message.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure when that changed because I remember that 
> initially Flash Player 9 worked fine in CrossOver. In any case I fixed 
> these issues so that Flash Player 9 will work fine in the next release. 
> In the meantime I believe a workaround is to copy the npswf32.dll file 
> from c:\windows\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll to c:\Program 
> Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins and to then run:
> 
> cxoffice/bin/cxnsplugin --sync --mode install
> 
Well, I didn't get to try that but the 6.2 RC works correctly.  It works 
fine in Firefox, but, unfortunately, it keeps crashing in Konqueror.  I 
am guessing that this is a KDE issue, but CodeWeavers might want to look 
into it.

-- 
JRT