Flash on Evan Hoffman

64-bit Firefox 6 on CentOS 6 x86_64 (or Fedora) with Flash 11

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:15:14 +0000

So I’ve gone back to Linux from Mac, due to the SSD issues I had with my Macbook Pro basically making VMware unusable. A Win7 VM would grind the guest and host to a halt on the 7200 RPM SATA OEM drive, and the SSD wouldn’t work, so I put the SSD back in my HP and installed CentOS 6 x86_64. Not really ideal, but at least it works.

CentOS 6 ships with Firefox 3.6.9, which is really old by now. Fine for a server, but I wanted FF6. I grabbed the Firefox 6.0.1 bz2 from VoxCast, unzipped it and copied it to /usr/lib64/firefox-6. Then I ran yum remove firefox to remove 3.6.9 and avoid any issues. I tried the instructions from my older post on this subject but for whatever reason it didn’t work - I’m guessing because I’m not using the distro’s Firefox RPM.

Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora 12 x86_64

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:36:54 +0000

I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got the Adobe Flash plugin working, it didn’t have any audio, which made YouTube kind of suck. Anyway, this of course was a solved problem, I just forgot where the fix was located… but duh, it’s on the Fedora website. A simple

HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:36:54 +0000

Updated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject.