See the issues and workaround solutions section below.

However, some Shockwave objects may not work. You can test it on the Test Macromedia Shockwave & Flash Players page. Removal of pluginreg.dat wasn't needed with Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox 3.0.14.Ĭongratulations, you should now have a working, if not convuluted, Shockwave setup. Replace 'RANDOM-STRING' with the random string your Mozilla has assigned for your computer. Rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/RANDOM-STRING/pluginreg.dat In later versions this file may have been moved: Rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat Close all Firefox windows and run this command in a terminal: Swallow(firefox.exe) fill stream: wine 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe' -chrome '$file'įinally, you need to make Firefox reload the plugin database. From a terminal, type:Īdd the following two lines to the end of the file:Īpplication/x-director: dir,dcr,dxr,cst,cct,cxt,w3d,fgd,swa: Macromedia Director file

Now you need to configure mozplugger to use the Windows version of Firefox for Shockwave files. Again, follow the on-screen instructions, and when the plugin has installed and is working, you may close Firefox. When the installation has finished, you then have to go to a web site that requires Shockwave, and choose to get the missing plugin. Choose to open the installer with Wine and follow the on-screen instructions. You then need to install the Windows version of Firefox (yes, you read that right). (Wine does not work on PowerPC and may not work as expected on 64-bit PCs.) You can then use mozplugger, a program that lets you 'embed' other programs in your web browser.įirst, install the wine and mozplugger packages (for information on how to do this, see InstallingSoftware). On a PC, it may be possible to run Shockwave under Ubuntu using Wine and running the Windows versions of Firefox and the Shockwave player.

Unfortunately, the Shockwave player is only available for Windows.

Today, Shockwave is most commonly used for Internet games. Designed by Macromedia in the mid 1990s, it was followed by Shockwave Flash (or just Flash), a simpler format which became far more popular.

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