Firefox Plug-in Flash Help for Winded Old Junkers [Outdated]

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Keef · #16 Post by **Keef** » Mon 14 May 2012, 21:23

Nah...
Leave it be. I thought it was about a self-help DVD for some of the crustier forum members.

Monsie · #17 Post by **Monsie** » Tue 15 May 2012, 05:31

Hi all,

I've received a reply from the developer about future support for SeaMonkey. His response sounded positive; he said that he'll look into the possibility of including support for SeaMonkey whilst making some planned code revisions in his next release of FlashVideoReplacer

For those who are interested, I am attaching our exchange of e-mail. If I get any more news from the developer, I will update this thread.

Monsie

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <4FB1D2E2.1050701@hotmail.ca> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:52:02 -0700 From: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120127 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yyyy Yyyyyyy Subject: Re: FlashVideoReplacer References:

Thanks very much for your quick reply.

This is great news... I appreciate that you will look into possibly providing support for SeaMonkey. I will share this with the Puppy Linux community.

Xxxx Xxxxxx

Yyyy Yyyyyyy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your interest. I am planning to do major code changes for the next version FVR and I could include support for SeaMonkey. I will look into it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Caio
> http://webgapps.org
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Xxxxx Xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hello lovinglinux,
>>
>> Your Firefox add-on is a current topic at Puppy Linux Discussion Forum. While many Puppy Linux users do run Firefox, the default browser in many versions of Puppy is SeaMonkey.
>>
>> Unfortunately, FlashVideoReplacer will not install in SeaMonkey 2.9.1 although it shares much code with Firefox and runs in compatibilty mode with Firefox by default. In fact, it is stated within the application.ini file of SeaMonkey that: "The Original Code is Mozilla Firefox".
>>
>> That said, would you be willing and able to resolve this current incompatibility in a future release of your add-on?
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration. In the event that you reply, I would like to share it with the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
>> Kamloops, BC Canada

666philb · #18 Post by **666philb** » Tue 15 May 2012, 06:54

if you're using gnome-mplayer as the default media player, and have a frugal install, it's a good idea to move the hidden /root/.cache/gnome-mplayer folder onto your harddrive and then symlink it back.

this stops the cache filling up your savefile.

Eathray · #19 Post by **Eathray** » Tue 15 May 2012, 13:29

bigpup wrote: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

nooby · #20 Post by **nooby** » Tue 15 May 2012, 14:52

Thanks indeed 666philb I needed such info too.
I ran out of space when I tried to look at a Science Conference
so very good you describe this way to solve such.

disciple · #21 Post by **disciple** » Wed 16 May 2012, 07:19

Eathray wrote:
bigpup wrote: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 · #22 Post by **Eathray** » Wed 16 May 2012, 13:29

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

Done

Eathray

Dewbie · #23 Post by **Dewbie** » Tue 31 Jul 2012, 09:38

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

bwh1969 · #24 Post by **bwh1969** » Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:34

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 · #25 Post by **666philb** » Tue 31 Jul 2012, 14:07

Dewbie wrote: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 · #26 Post by **disciple** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 03:50

666philb wrote: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 · #27 Post by **Dewbie** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 04:15

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 · #28 Post by **disciple** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 06:27

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 · #29 Post by **disciple** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 06:28

Disciple wrote: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...

#30 Post by **Makoto** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 07:50

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 · #31 Post by **pemasu** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 07:59

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 · #32 Post by **Monsie** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 10:39

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 · #33 Post by **666philb** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 11:14

pemasu · #34 Post by **pemasu** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 12:15

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

Dewbie · #35 Post by **Dewbie** » Wed 01 Aug 2012, 22:45

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.

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