Bug#655867: iceweasel: Iceweasel does not find the flashplayer plugin

[Stefan Frings]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 8.0-3+b1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,
after installation of debian testing, I was surprized that iceweasel was already able to display
flash videos in websites. However it turned out that the player is somewhat broken. Playback is
jerky on many sites, die size of the video does not match the border on the website and some sites
keep telling that I need to install a flash player.

The add-ons-Manager of iceweasel shows in the plugins-tab that I have a plugin called 
"Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999. Gnash 0.8.10dev, the GNU SWF Player."

So it was obviously that I possibly need to switch to the original Adobe flash player, which I did
using the package flashplayer-mozilla from debian-multimedia.org, which works fine - but:

Iceweasel does not find the flash player that is now installed in /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla. 
I was able to fix this myself by adding some symlinks:

mkdir /usr/share/iceweasel/plugins
cd /usr/share/iceweasel/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
cd /usr/lib/iceweasel
ln -s /usr/share/iceweasel/plugins

Now iceweasel finds the plugin and can properly playback flash videos on all websites.

I would recommend to provide an empty "plugins" directory by the iceweasel package, so it would be much
more obviously where I need to place the libflashplayer.so. Also it might be possible to modify the
search algorithm of iceweasel so it find the file /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so without
manually creating a symlink to it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.1
ii  fontconfig          2.8.0-3
ii  libc6               2.13-24
ii  libgcc1             1:4.6.2-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.8-2
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.8.9-1
ii  libstdc++6          4.6.2-11
ii  procps              1:3.2.8-11
ii  xulrunner-8.0       8.0-3+b1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.10+dfsg~alpha2-1
ii  mozplugger          <none>
ii  ttf-lyx             2.0.2-1
ii  ttf-mathematica4.1  <none>
ii  xfonts-mathml       4

Versions of packages xulrunner-8.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.24.1-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-24
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.4.16-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.16-stable-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.8-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.8-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8c-2
ii  libmozjs8d                8.0-3+b1
ii  libnotify4                0.7.4-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               4.8.9-1
ii  libnss3-1d                3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.24.0-1
ii  libreadline6              6.2-8
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.9-2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-11
ii  libvpx0                   0.9.7.p1-2
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.0-3
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.6-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.1-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages xulrunner-8.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0      0.28-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.98-1
ii  libgnomeui-0      2.24.5-2

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