flash on firefox 3

finally upgraded to firefox 3, and i had some trouble getting the adobe flash player recognized. i installed it, made some links to places i thought it might be looking, all with apparently no effect. the thing that finally made it work was when i symlinked /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so.

gmplayer with .m3u

i found a good way to use gmplayer with .m3u files from my streaming music server (using ampache). i made a little bash script: #!/bin/bash # cache up to 16MB, so it won't get cut off if paused # since the cache is so big, only cache 1% before starting #echo Opening "$1" # for firefox #gmplayer -cache 16384 -cache-min 1 -playlist $@ # for opera (it makes filenames like "playlist (3).m3u", and it waits for this script to finish) gmplayer -cache 16384 -cache-min 1 -playlist "$1" & then i set up my browser to run this with the downloaded .m3u as the argument.