Firefox Plug-in Flash Help for Winded Old Junkers [Outdated]

[disciple]

Eathray,

Thanks for informing us about this plugin.

I would suggest changing the subject of this topic so that it identifies more clearly what it is.
Newly Discovered Video Assistance for Winded Old Junkers does not really describe, this is about a plugin for Firefox, that replaces Flash Player.

Done

Eathray

It's still missing the critical information that it is for playing Flash videos.

[Eathray]

It's still missing the critical information that it is for playing Flash videos.

Done

Eathray

[Dewbie]

The author has removed Flash video replacer from Mozilla's website.
However, there's still hope.

[bwh1969]

I have tried to build both of these with no success. I have a seemingly proper build environment, as I build my own wifi driver from source, the ati/amd *.run file and virtualbox *.run files all built on my machine.

It isn't that I "hate" flash, and someone pointed out that 11.2 will get security updates; however, the long sited view is that we need something that works because 11.2 will fail to run on some sites at some point in the future.

[666philb]

The author has removed Flash video replacer from Mozilla's website.
However, there's still hope.

he seems to have removed it due to google changing the rules http://webgapps.org/add-ons/flashvideoreplacer/

i have it installed and working well on my system, so if anyone knows what particular files i need to extract it from firefox and .pet it up. let me know

[disciple]

he seems to have removed it due to google changing the rules http://webgapps.org/add-ons/flashvideoreplacer/

But isn't it for Flash in general, not specifically Youtube?
That's shocking if they've bullied him into withdrawing it.
There appear to be some alternatives that people might be interested in:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... t-youtube/

i have it installed and working well on my system, so if anyone knows what particular files i need to extract it from firefox and .pet it up. let me know

Firefox extensions are installed into your firefox profile, which has a unique name, so you won't really be able to make a .pet out of it. But you could just provide the .xpi, if it installed without being extracted, or if not you could conceivably reassemble it into an .xpi, or could just .zip it up and people could install it by manually extracting it into their profile.

Possibility 1: The extension will just be one of the folders in your firefox profile's extension folder, which is normally somewhere like /root/.mozilla/firefox/wud7nhh6.default/extensions (where wud7nhh6 is a string unique to your profile). Note the files/folders with a . at the front are hidden by default, and if your filer is Rox you can show them by clicking the eye button. You will need to identify the right folder for the extension by looking at the contents of e.g. the install.js files (you can open these in a text editor, or I guess you could use Pfind to search for files containing the name of the plugin).

Possibility 2: The extension is an unextracted .xpi folder in your firefox profile's extension folder. Again, you might be able to identify which one by searching for files containing the name of the plugin.

If you're having trouble finding the right file/folder, let us know and maybe we can help some more.

[Dewbie]

disciple wrote:

But you could just provide the .xpi, if it installed without being extracted, or if not you could conceivably reassemble it into an .xpi, or could just .zip it up and people could install it by manually extracting it into their profile.

I've installed flashblock and user agent switcher .xpi files by dragging them to the browser and following the install prompts. If they're not compatible with a browser, they generally won't install.

[disciple]

Dewbie, I'm not sure what your point is. Some .xpis are just copied into the extensions folder when you install them, but others are extracted as a subfolder. In the latter case you would need to rebuild the .xpi if you didn't keep a copy. An .xpi is a zip, but I'm not sure if it has a checksum or some metadata or what...

[disciple]

but others are extracted as a subfolder.

Unless it's just that they used to be extracted as a subfolder, and any that are still in a subfolder must have been installed years ago...

[Makoto]

If you want to rebuild extensions, you can also try FEBE or Zippy Extension Packager.

(I haven't tried either, so I don't know how well they work. But they do claim to do the job.)

[pemasu]

I have earlier created a pet of flvideoreplacer. I have extracted the metadata info and recreated the .xpi so that it installs to the /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/

Here is how you do it. Quote from Barry`s blog by Iguleder:

Barry, I found a way to pre-install extensions for Firefox and Seamonkey without having to create a profile first!
It's really simple - I found out that xpi extensions are zip archives. Just unzip an extensions, open install.rdf and get its ID, which is a GUID.
In the case of TorButton, it's "{e0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca}".
Here's how to pre-install TorButton for all users, if so (assuming Firefox is located in /usr/local/apps/firefox):
install -m644 -D torbutton-current.xpi $INSTALL_DIR/usr/local/apps/firefox/extensions/\{e0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca\}.xpi

It means that if you remove your /root/.mozilla content, the extension is not removed. Generic installation. It is nice trick for puppy builder...it gives possibility to push extensions preinstalled to the Firefox. I have flashblock, adblock and fireftp preinstalled this way.....

[Monsie]

Hi all,

It took me awhile... but I found an alternate download site "cough, cough" where I was able to get FVR 2.1.14 I am not sure if this was the most recent version but if not, it's close. The download is an .xpi file, so one way to install it is to open Firefox in a small window, then drag the file from your download directory and drop it inside the browser window... you'll get a prompt asking if you want to install the add-on... etc --done.

The place where I found this item is "cough, cough" over here. I am saving this little gem because it allows me to install it in other distros also... and at this point I am not feeling too optimistic that the developer will be allowed to resume work with his projects... If need be, I can upload it as an attachment.

Monsie

[666philb]

[pemasu]

https://github.com/webgapps/flvideorepl ... ves/master

[Dewbie]

I wrote:

I've installed flashblock and user agent switcher .xpi files by dragging them to the browser and following the install prompts. If they're not compatible with a browser, they generally won't install.

disciple wrote:

Dewbie, I'm not sure what your point is.

Same point Monsie made, five posts later.
Read the second part of his first paragraph.
Unlike .pets, .tarballs, etc., .xpis often don't extract / install when you click on them.

[disciple]

I don't think you understood my post which you were quoting. That is of course what they would do if you have the .xpi, but if you're retrieving a plugin from the plugins folder you might only have it as an extracted folder.

[pemasu]

if you're retrieving a plugin from the plugins folder you might only have it as an extracted folder.

True. I even have a script which converts the .xpi extension to the generic - for all users - uncompressed folder. Takes more space so havent used much more than tested that it actually works.

I renamed the script to just xpi for short typing.
Usage:
add_global_firefox_extension.sh [-hof]
OPTIONS:
-o linux|osx
Operating system (mandatory)
-f /path/xpi_filename
path to the original xpi file to install in the operating system's global directory (mandatory)
-h this usage information
EXAMPLE:
add_global_firefox_extension.sh -o osx -f ./thesupergood.xpi

No...I havent created the script....I aint no coder. I just found it when studying .xpi extensions.
My example:
./xpi -o linux -f /root/Downloads/flvideoreplacer-2.1.15.xpi
and the script installs the .xpi as uncompressed folder to the system global extensions directory. For me:
/usr/lib/firefox/extensions but you need to edit the script if you have system global extensions directory somewhere else.

[Colonel Panic]

Good thread! I'll try this when I next want to play a video.

Thanks (and Merry Christmas),

CP .

[mikeb]

Unfortunately its no longer supported (google threats) or working...was good when it did.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
does work and is current...not quite as convenient but working ...just scroll down and choose the addon for your browser.

mike

[RetroTechGuy]

Unfortunately its no longer supported (google threats) or working...was good when it did.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
does work and is current...not quite as convenient but working ...just scroll down and choose the addon for your browser.

mike

Now if we just had a drop in replacement for FireFox that wasn't so bloated.

My old desktop "only" has 1 GB RAM -- FF will crash it, if I turn off the 1 GB Swap. I bought a refurbed lappy, with 4GB (3 available to Lupu), and it runs fine... But good grief!.... You need more than a GB of RAM to run a browser?

I tried a whole pile of the "replacements" the other night -- all of them barked errors (some very strange, like "won't run" or some such useless message). I did get my system back to working condition by about 3AM...

I was just given an old XP desktop that some friends are retiring -- we had upgraded it to 2 GB RAM, I'm going to drop that in and see how it does...