Control Flash version used by PhantomJS

[davidrapin]

[email protected] commented:

I have Flash installed but it doesn ot seem to be used by PhantomJS. How does PhantomJS find the installed Flash plugin ? Is there a way to control that ? Does it really look for an external Flash plugin or does it use an embeded one ?

Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run 'phantomjs --version'.
1.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Intall Flash in CentOS
2. access to http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
3. make a screenshot of the page with PhantomJS
4. look at the screenshot

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to seen running flash animations in the screenshot.
I see "Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player" and the page says that "It indicates that Flash Player is not installed on your computer".

Which operating system are you using?
CentOS 5.5 (Final) x86_64
Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010

Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?
I compiled from souce with the provided shell script

Please provide any additional information below.
Here are the steps that I followed to install Flash:

1. yum -y install curl compat-libstdc++-33 glibc nspluginwrapper
2. mkdir flash
3. cd flash && wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.55/flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release.x86_64.rpm
4. cd flash && rpm -ivh ./*.rpm
5. rm -rf ./flash/

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #349.
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[ariya]

[email protected] commented:

This document may be helpful: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qtwebkit.html#netscape-plugin-support.

In all cases, search the wiki pages and/or mailing-list for PhantomJS position on Flash (and other plugins). In short: if it works then please use it, otherwise it is not supported.

 
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[davidrapin]

[email protected] commented:

Thanks for the link !
David