Hi Rich - thank you - I will try it. I did find the firefox plugin folder and saw flash loaded in there. I was running tce-load -i flash10ff - but I will try the flash10 method instead if you think that might help.
The reason I "manually" install extensions was:
a) As Juanito pointed out - some tcz's worked well in onboot.lst - others had to "wait" - the dance between Alsa, Flash and Firefox is still (after 8 months?) elusive for me. It works sometimes - other times does not. I tried loading it all into onboot.lst - and never did get that to work. Tried the on-demand feature, never got that to work/play videos etc. - or sound would have to be re-done, plus had to write a script to raise levels for Alsaconf etc. - so it all just loads there, raises levels - done.
There are a few extensions in onboot.lst (lemme check)
jwm.tcz
kmaps.tcz
setproxy.tcz
b) Loading by "onboot.lst" also meant a static environment - or editing that to change - then rebooting. Depending on conditions/purpose/session objective - and PC RAM (I have a traveling thumb drive to boot from), I can go to a nice, clean, colorful (ok, eye candy) menu after a boot, fire off a script, and get abi, gnumeric, whatever...easily on the fly - and the system can work in TC or in theory - any other Linux - since it is SH based.
c) Most of the utilities I am using were developed to get around problems I found in TC - whether it was "appearance" (gray boxes) - which my clients would never accept - or performance - inconsistent from one PC to another - so the scripts create "patches" to get things to work.
The system ran fine - 3 months - great good looking desktop - except for the Firefox crashes - then frustrated - I tried Opera - modified a few scripts - and now can't even get Firefox to come up by script (other post) - and have seen Opera play a flash video twice after a lot of mucking around.
I would think it should be rather easy to:
1. Load a program/ap
2. Or load its supporting aps first - or afterwards
3. Then run an ap
...and am finding it isn't that simple or easy.
The only reason I am online now is spending 30 minutes "manually" getting firefox to even run - hunting down the /usr/local/firefox-official directory (which for some reason, firefox can't find it), and manually running a wifi utility I wrote (because wifi-radar can't get me online - another reason a std extension isn't enough).
Since I am new to Opera - I figure - yes - eventually I will get flash working...and will try the /usr/local/lib/opera/plugins folder -
Big question:
ALSA
FLASH
OPERA/FIREFOX
What is the proper sequence to LOAD them?
I typically load alsa first, then assume flash (flash10 or flash10ff), then the browser.
Is that the right order? I believe Juanito once suggested
Alsa, then the browser, then Flash10(ff) and then light up the browser.
Any thoughts?