flash (the macromedia kind) on galeon

[Robert Serphillips]

Netscape doesn't support plug-ins. Mozilla/Galeon will work with flash but usually crash trying to load the next page. 
The only browser that runs flash consistently is opera. And it only runs older flash content with no sound.

-Rob

On Sat, 4 May 2002 16:35:30 -0500
"Ryan Mesler" <kraylus@airmail.net> wrote:

> ok ladies and gents! i got the cdrom issues resolved. i just told the fstab
> that the cdrom was located at /dev/hdb and all was well.
> 
> anyhoo, here's the new issue. i love galeon alot! i think it's a killer
> browser. so i figured in order to make my life complete i should get flash
> installed for it. so i got the linux flash version and followed the
> instructions and put it in the plugins dir. however, since galeon runs off
> of mozilla, i put it in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir instead since i
> dunno if galeon even HAS a plugins dir (i looked up info on it and couldnt
> find any).
> 
> it didn't work :( so i fired up mozilla and tested to see if it at least
> worked in mozilla. it did not. what am i doing wrong? i've done this in the
> past for slackware, redhat, and mandrake using the netscape browser and got
> flash working just fine. why won't it work in mozilla?
> 
> will i be forced to use netscape?? ack!!
> 
> thanks for your time!
> 
> Ryan Mesler
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