GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 664285
Flash plugin not recognized
Last modified: 2012-05-02 03:10:29 UTC
Created attachment 201601 [details] screenshot In Fedora 16, the flash plugin is not recognized by Epiphany although it is in other browsers.
Except for the nspluginwrapper thing, you won't see Flash in Epiphany until WebKit2 or until Adobe ports it to GTK+3
Created attachment 201729 [details] Plugins Page screenshot
Hi, I have this problem too. Attached a screenshot of the "about:plugins" page in epiphany. The flash plugins appears (even twice!), but flash does not work. I don't know the details of this "nspluginwrapper" thing, but I know I have nspluginwrapper installed and flash plugins appears among the other working plugins. Moreover, it used to work in Fedora 15 (Epiphany 3.0.x then) wich already used webkit. My question is: is there a way to have flash back in epiphany now? If yes, how? Is this a Fedora 16 bug? Thanks
I might be wrong but I think 3.0 didn't explicitely disable the flash plugin. In any case, it's listed because it's detected, but it will never work, or even work properly. It's a problem with how webkitgtk and flash interact. It will be fixed with webkit2 and/or a future flash plugin that works with gtk3.
Should not be possible do have flash support via nspluginwrapper, at least? There are guides on the web to do it for Epiphany 3.2.X, just not explicitly for Fedora 16 (http://fitoschidoblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/como-activar-flash-en-epiphany-3-2/ for example). The procedure does not work for me. Are such guides ureliable or simply not fitting Fedora environment? Is this just a Fedora Bug? Of course I already opened a bug report on fedora's bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755269), but it's not clear to me if this is a fedora problem.
As far as I know, nspluginwrapper works. Also, remember you can use HTML5 for youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5 Just google a guide for Fedora. Or try asking in some Fedora related chat, mailing list or forum.
Flash with Epiphany/Web in Fedora 17: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755269#c7 sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux sudo yum install flash-plugin epiphany nspluginwrapper sudo ln -sf /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins sudo yum remove totem-mozplugin *as user* rm $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/* /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npconfig -v -n -a -i *As ROOT user (to bring wmv, etc streaming support): yum install totem-mozplugin Now launch epiphany/Web, flash in Web works. Just installed and tested on fedora 17 beta livecd. thanks.