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Flash switcher?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 15:12 UTC (Thu) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
Parent article: SCALE 8x: Gnash, the free Flash player

Does anyone know of a firefox extension, or a plugin-wrapper, or anything that makes testing gnash easier, by allowing a user to run gnash and Adobe Flash Player at the same time?

My time for testing software and reporting bugs is limited. But if my browser ran gnash by default, but had a quick way to allow me to flip over to Adobe, then I could give gnash a better run for its money without wasting tons of time. Ideally this switcher would also report to the gnash folks the url of the flash site that didn't work (optionally, of course) and/or let me specify a problem description.

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Flash switcher?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 17:02 UTC (Thu) by admorgan (subscriber, #26575) [Link]

Using Firefox's extension manager you can have both installed and activate/deactive which is used even during the same browser session. I did this frequently back when Hulu still worked for 64bit. Now I just use gnash.

Flash switcher?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 17:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

every time I've tried to enable/disable flash I've been told by firefox tha tthe change will take effect after the next restart.

Flash switcher?

Posted Mar 14, 2010 3:08 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

In firefox, if you have multiple flash plugins installed and browse to a site that uses flash, a tiny icon will quietly appear in the lower-right corner. If you click this icon, a window will pop up with a drop-down that lets you select which plugin to use on the current web site (and maybe change the default for future web sites, I'm not sure).

However, this doesn't work if you use the flashblock extension. (I guess because firefox only checks for the presence of flash in the website when the website is first loaded, and with flashblock there is never any flash present.) It does work to disable flashblock (*not* using Add-ons -> Flashblock -> Disable, which requires a restart, but using Add-ons -> Flashblock -> Preferences -> Enable Flashblock), reload the page, click the little icon to fiddle with flash settings, and then re-enable flashblock.

This feature is generally a bit buggy for me and I've never seen it documented anywhere, but it WFM.