I've already posted in the "Thanks! 64 bit Flash!" thread
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...id=72&catid=67
5&threadid=1406324&enterthread=y, about my 64 bit libflashplayer.so not working
or showing up as a plugin in aboutlugins, even though it's in
..mozilla/plugins/ and I've restarted Firefox quite a few times, but thought a
more descriptive title and some other facts might help:

Obv., using 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha for Linux, released on November 17,
2008
Firefox, v3.0.4
Red Hat EL4 WS (Nahant Update 7)
Linux 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

It's very frustrating because now I can't even find an older libflashplayer.so
to make nspluginwrapper work again!

Thanks for any advice.

tried downloading the tar.gz version and copying libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins ?

I've got copies of the libflashplayer.so from the tar.gz in all of the
following places, and still no Flash working or showing up in aboutlugins:

[Q][marilyn@whitney ~]$ ls -la .mozilla/plugins/
total 9340
drwxrwxrwx 2 marilyn users 4096 Nov 20 14:56 .
drwx------ 5 marilyn users 4096 Nov 20 14:46 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 marilyn users 9525320 Nov 20 14:56 libflashplayer.so
[marilyn@whitney ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/
total 9412
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 13:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 73728 Nov 21 13:30 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9525320 Nov 21 13:31 libflashplayer.so
[marilyn@whitney ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
total 9340
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 13:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 19 18:48 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9525320 Nov 20 15:10 libflashplayer.so
[marilyn@whitney ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.4/plugins/
total 9368
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 13:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 19 18:15 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9525320 Nov 21 13:40 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24064 Nov 5 10:55 libnullplugin.so
[marilyn@whitney ~]$[/Q]

The null plugin isn't enabled of course (though I did try enabling it in
about:config, and it made no difference on revealing the Flash plugin).

WTF? I have absolutely no idea what's going on or what to do next (aside from
going back to nswrapper, but like I said, I can't find old flashplayer.so files
to make it work). I guess I could reboot the machine, but that seems stupid
and Windowsy.

Go to about:config and set 'plugin.expose_full_path' to 'true' for aboutlugins to show where it's loading all of your other plugins from. Make sure the .so file is in one of those directories.

Thanks for the idea, but I already have that option set to true -- the other
plugins are in the directories I listed above, /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ and
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.4/plugins/, and they also have libflashplayer.so in
them. And yet, there is no sign of it, no matter how many times I restart
Firefox or refresh the page.

It's extremely depressing!