Firefox 13 on Debian - where is Flash?

Firefox 13 on Debian - where is Flash?

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Jul 2 15:10:04 IDT 2012


Hi Amos,

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:00:54PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> It doesn't. I installed the Mozilla binary because iceweasel is stuck at 10
> and I wanted the later versions.

Iceweasel 13.0.1 is packaged in experimental. See 
http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/iceweasel.

baruch

> On Jul 2, 2012 8:52 PM, "Tomer Cohen" <tomer at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Since when Debian does have Firefox package and not Iceweasel?
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I installed Firefox 13.0.1 (well - audo upgraded since 11) on Debian
> >> wheezy/sid x86 and it work well, except that I can't make it run Flash.
> >> I think it comes down to "were the f*** is the plugins directory?" and I
> >> couldn't find a definite answer to that.
> >> The most concrete path I found talks about /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, but
> >> linking to the libflashplayer.so (installed with
> >> flashplugin-nonfree-1:2.8.4) from that directory and restarting Firefox
> >> still doesn't list it in the Addon-Plugins page or makes Flash work.
> >>
> >> Any help?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --Amos

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