Many people are having problems with Flash Player 10, and because I might update to openSUSE 11.1 soon, which AFAIK only ships Flash Player 10, I tested whether Gnash works (v0.8.3 from distribution packages). The answer is: Not at all.

The long side of the story: I have removed the flash-player package, installed the gnash package, and used the Konqueror settings to update the nspluginwrapper plugin list. (It does now assign libgnashplugin.so, which is in /usr/lib/browser-plugins, to the application/x-shockwave-flash mime type.)

But when I open a YouTube video site, it does not show a player window. Also, on the YouTube main page, where that funky "Videos being watched right now..." bar usually distracts you, only a static list of videos appears. I checked a McDonalds site of which I knew that it consists only of a giant window-filling Flash video, and was surprised to find that it was now only static HTML with some simple JavaScript animations. I checked all sites in Firefox, and the Gnash plugin loaded properly in all cases (except that the video playback on Youtube does not work, but that's clearly a Gnash bug).

To me, this looks like Gnash cannot be loaded properly, so KHTML tries to fallback to the static content that the tag may contain for this case. Does anyone know something about this behavior?

Now that is really strange: I reinstalled Flash Player 9, configured nspluginwrapper's list again, and the Flash plugins do still not work. Am I doing something wrong when configuring the nsplugins?