Pipelight

silverlight5.1 works, silverlight5.0 ignored by browser

Asked by Ian Gibbs

Firefox 36.0.1

igibbs@office-2 ~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Release: 17.1
Codename: rebecca

3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have successfully installed silverlight5.1 and seen the bubble test work OK. The service I am trying to access (NowTV) is one of those for which silverlight 5.0 is recommended. I have disabled the 5.1 plugin and enabled the 5.0 plugin, which seems to have worked:

igibbs@office-2 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins $ ls -l
total 356
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Mar 13 11:52 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 4 11:33 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Apr 1 20:50 libpipelight-silverlight5.0.so -> /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-silverlight5.0.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100720 Apr 1 2014 libtotem-cone-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105440 Apr 1 2014 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72048 Apr 1 2014 libtotem-mully-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80576 Apr 1 2014 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so

The plugin does not show up in about:plugins. If I switch back to 5.1, it does show up. Running the debug command produces nothing of interest:

(process:4461): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
(firefox:4461): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised
(firefox:4461): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised
(firefox:4461): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised
(firefox:4461): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised

It seems Firefox has ignored the 5.0 plugin. When I switched to it, the license agreement was displayed as expected.

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#1

Firefox seems to have a problem lately if a plugin takes too long to load and blacklists it. This is especially problematic if you enable a plugin for the first time since it needs to be installed. In case a plugin does not show up, run "sudo pipelight-plugin ---create-mozilla-plugins" and restart your browser.

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