Your difficulties with Flash have nothing to do with custom kernel or window manager, that's how bad it is for everyone on Linux.
My upgrade was probably more painful. I had a version 7 player lingering around in local plugin dir as well:
~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
As well as a .xpt file:
~/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
Then ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat had to be removed (gets regenerated on browser restart) to wipe out any trace of Flash 7. At this point Flash 9 would work on Mozilla.
Firefox's file is at:
~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat
But removing it and having it regenerated didn't help like in case of plain Mozilla. I tried a couple of things to change on my profile (because I quickly figured out new Firefox profiles could use Flash 9 at that point, too), but to no avail.
An export of bookmarks, a copy of passwords and a wipeout of my years old firefox profile later, I'm back on track with latest Flash in my new default profile.
http://mark.cervarich.com/tm/archives/000104.php
This is how I moved the passwords. Of course re-typing everything in my address bar now is a pain, but at least it's doable.. lots of the passwords I have no recollection of anymore, that would be impossible.
All in all, over an hour spent upgrading to Flash 9. Thank you, Adobe, for making it so straightforward!
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Yikes!
Well, hopefully your comment will help some poor google searcher some day.
I should add that my Flash playing seems a bit dodgy still. I can only seem to listen to one Pandora.com song at a time.
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Your difficulties with Flash have nothing to do with custom kernel or window manager, that's how bad it is for everyone on Linux. My upgrade was probably more painful. I had a version 7 player lingering around in local plugin dir as well: ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so As well as a .xpt file: ~/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt Then ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat had to be removed (gets regenerated on browser restart) to wipe out any trace of Flash 7. At this point Flash 9 would work on Mozilla. Firefox's file is at: ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat But removing it and having it regenerated didn't help like in case of plain Mozilla. I tried a couple of things to change on my profile (because I quickly figured out new Firefox profiles could use Flash 9 at that point, too), but to no avail. An export of bookmarks, a copy of passwords and a wipeout of my years old firefox profile later, I'm back on track with latest Flash in my new default profile. http://mark.cervarich.com/tm/archives/000104.php This is how I moved the passwords. Of course re-typing everything in my address bar now is a pain, but at least it's doable.. lots of the passwords I have no recollection of anymore, that would be impossible. All in all, over an hour spent upgrading to Flash 9. Thank you, Adobe, for making it so straightforward!