# Adobe Flash in GtkMozEmbed?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347 "2007-06-08T20:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chriscole)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347/1 "2007-06-08T20:41:00Z")

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Hi,  
is it possible to play Flash videos with GtkMozEmbed?  
If I use the RubyZilla sample or the ruby-gecko.rb sample, Flash videos  
aren’t played on YouTube, video.google etc. If I enter about:plugins in  
the address bar, it tells me that there aren’t any plugins installed  
even though I’ve got Firefox installed with Flash plugin. The Flash  
plugin is in both /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib/firefox.

I’m on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn if that helps and I use ruby-gnome from the  
Ubuntu repository.

Do I have to do something to activate flash playback with GtkMozEmbed,  
or is it just impossible to do so? If it’s impossible, is there an easy  
way to open an address in the user’s standard webbrowser from within  
Ruby?

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**Author:** ![chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chriscole)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347/2 "2007-06-09T13:49:29Z")

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Okay all done, I found out what was wrong. There seems to be a few  
mistakes in the documentation, there was a missing “/” in a path, now it  
works.

Chris Colon wrote:

> Hi,  
> is it possible to play Flash videos with GtkMozEmbed?  
> If I use the RubyZilla sample or the ruby-gecko.rb sample, Flash videos  
> aren’t played on YouTube, video.google etc. If I enter about:plugins in  
> the address bar, it tells me that there aren’t any plugins installed  
> even though I’ve got Firefox installed with Flash plugin. The Flash  
> plugin is in both /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib/firefox.
> 
> I’m on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn if that helps and I use ruby-gnome from the  
> Ubuntu repository.
> 
> Do I have to do something to activate flash playback with GtkMozEmbed,  
> or is it just impossible to do so? If it’s impossible, is there an easy  
> way to open an address in the user’s standard webbrowser from within  
> Ruby?

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**Author:** ![chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chriscole)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347/3 "2007-06-10T02:03:09Z")

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Hell i would be thrilled if i could just git GtkMozEmbed to work it just  
segfaults for me.

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**Author:** ![chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@chriscole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chriscole)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adobe-flash-in-gtkmozembed/106347/4 "2007-07-08T17:49:48Z")

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Chris Colon wrote:

> Okay all done, I found out what was wrong. There seems to be a few  
> mistakes in the documentation, there was a missing “/” in a path, now it  
> works.

Hi Chris,  
if the docs are not yet fixed, please report the problem with more  
detail.

Thank you  
Mirko

> > I’m on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn if that helps and I use ruby-gnome from the  
> > Ubuntu repository.
> > 
> > Do I have to do something to activate flash playback with GtkMozEmbed,  
> > or is it just impossible to do so? If it’s impossible, is there an easy  
> > way to open an address in the user’s standard webbrowser from within  
> > Ruby?

–  
Mirko M.  
Ubuntu: an African word meaning “I can’t figure out how to configure  
Debian”

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