flash won't work in mozilla 0.9.5

[vasah20]

Hey all -
I've downloaded and installed flash_linux.tar.gz from the macromedia site, but every time that I visit a site with flash, mozilla freezes up and I need to XKill it.

I checked the about :plugins page in mozilla and both Shockwave Flash and FutureSplashPlayer show up in the list. Strangely enough, though, when I pulled up the about :plugins page, for some reason my system starts to slow down.

I've redownloaded the tar.gz and reinstalled it, but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

TIA
leo

SPECS:
Drake 8, PCTel HSP-Micromodem (linmodem)
AMD 712 Mhz, 512 MB RAM

[StarbuckZero]

Did it work in the other browsers you have install on your system(Netscape 4.7)? If it's not working it would be best if you file a bug report at the Mozilla website. I never try it so I wouldn't know. :confused:

[evilcartman]

What version of mozilla are you using?

[Jomboni]

I don't think it's a Mozilla bug. If he downloads Netscape 6.1 or 6.2 I guarantee he'll have the exact same problem. I did.

And I never figured out how to fix it. I just got lucky and when Redhat 7.2 came out, I upgraded to it, and it came with Mozilla .9.2 something, and I downloaded the .9.5 rpm and upgraded it, and the flash and everything worked fine...

[evilcartman]

I downloaded mozilla 0.9.5 as tar.gz and installed it..So far so good with flash...

[vasah20]

Originally posted by Jomboni:
<STRONG>I don't think it's a Mozilla bug. If he downloads Netscape 6.1 or 6.2 I guarantee he'll have the exact same problem. I did.

And I never figured out how to fix it. I just got lucky and when Redhat 7.2 came out, I upgraded to it, and it came with Mozilla .9.2 something, and I downloaded the .9.5 rpm and upgraded it, and the flash and everything worked fine...</STRONG>

When I tried installing flash on Netscape (4.77), it froze up too. I'm running Drake 8, so I should upgrade to 8.1 just to get flash working? Or wait... I should probably get the Drake specific Mozilla RPM and install that, huh? I initially downloaded the tar.gz and installed that way... could it be that the .tar.gz of .9.5 isn't compatible with Drake 8?

leo

[toolshed]

Did u check to see if flash and shockwave are in the proper directories...all u have d/w and unzip them and cp into mozilla plugin directory.

[vasah20]

yeah - they are both in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

For some reason, Drake installed mozilla there by default, so I decided to keep it there.

I know that mozilla sees em, because I can check the about -&gt; plugins menu, and flash shows up...