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Please excuse this newbie question:

I've got installations of Debian 5 and OpenSolaris 2009.06, both of which have Firefox 3.5.3 setup and running. Unfortunately:

1.Firefox under Debian can't play YouTube videos (I am assuming this is Flash?) nor Quicktime trailers from e.g. Apple.com/trailers.

2.Firefox under OpenSolaris can't play Quicktime videos.

Does anyone know how to get plugins to solve these problems? If not, pointers to helpful resources would be great too! Thanks.

hpy
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To install the non-free Adobe Flash Player under Debian you can follow these insructions:

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-install-adobe-flash-in-debian-etchlennysid.html

For QuickTime, you have several choices. Notably, you can install mozilla-plugin-vlc, xine-plugin, or mozilla-mplayer.

Can't help you with OpenSolaris, but I suspect at least some of those packages exist for it.

CarlF
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If you want Flash on OpenSolaris, the easiest way to get it is to go to pkg.sun.com and sign up. That will get you access to a precompiled Flash which fits right in the Firefix Sun distributes.

Thre reason it isn't in the default distribution is that Sun can not redistribute Flash.

Martin
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