{"id":407,"date":"2006-11-13T23:32:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/getting-flash-working-in-firefox-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:59","slug":"getting-flash-working-in-firefox-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/getting-flash-working-in-firefox-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting flash working in Firefox in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few hours I have been trying to get Flash to work on my Linux system using Firefox. Specifically I wanted to be able to listen to music at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\">Pandora.com<\/a>. I tried everything I could think of including installing different versions of the Flash plugin. I even installed gnash , which is a free version of the flash player but nothing seemed to work.<\/p>\n<p>The funny part was when I tried accessing the swf file directly it would open it and I would see the player initializing but since it needed info from other sections of the page it wouldn&#8217;t play anything. Finally I thought that maybe one of my extension&#8217;s was causing problems so I tried shutting off Adblock and that fixed the issue. <\/p>\n<p>So now I could start the Pandora music player, but I still didn&#8217;t get any sound. The fix for that issue was thankfully simple, all I had to do was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install alsa-oss by issuing the following command as root: <em>apt-get install alsa-oss<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Edit <i>\/etc\/firefox\/firefoxrc<\/i> and add the following line to it:<br \/>\n              <b>FIREFOX_DSP=&#8221;aoss&#8221;<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Restart Firefox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After I did this I can now enjoy music from Pandora without any issues. Well, almost any issues. For some reason when I play music from Pandora Firefox memory usage goes upto 70%. I am running Firefox 2.0 on a Debian Unstable system. If any of you have suggestions on how to reduce the CPU usage please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Hope this helps someone else also.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few hours I have been trying to get Flash to work on my Linux system using Firefox. Specifically I wanted to be able to listen to music at Pandora.com. I tried everything I could think of including installing different versions of the Flash plugin. I even installed gnash , which is a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-linuxunix-related","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}