Flash in Firefox 3 in Linux

As a continuation of my article on Flash in Firefox 3 in Windows.
I tried Flash in Mandriva 2008.1 Spring.

Firefox 3 for linux comes as a tar.bz2 compressed file.
All I had to do was to uncompress it using

mkdir /home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/
cd /home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/

tar -jxvf firefox.tar.bz2


This creates a directory called "firefox".
the -"j" option on tar command tell that the compressed file is compressed with bzip2 and we need to use bunzip2 to uncompress it.

Next step was to install Flash plugins in Firefox3.
This was trivial. I went to the Firefox3 plugins directory.

[abhay@localhost plugins]$ pwd
/home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/firefox/plugins

and just linked Flash library from my previous installation of Firefox 2.

ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so .

One single step and I had flash working beautifully in Firefox 3.

Happy Flashing with Firefox --- IN LINUX