427381 - Flash installer included in Firefox 3 beta 5 does not work in Ubuntu 7.10 properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416396

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek [:mgol]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

Flash installer in *.tar.gz, downloaded directly from Adobe site and run manually works fine. Nevertheless, Firefox has its own feature telling people which plugin is missing and allowing them to install them just by clicking proposed option in Firefox.

This feature does not work in Firefox 3 beta 5, in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). There are 2 problems:

1) First attempt of installing Flash this way ended with report:
"Minefield could not install this item because «install-bxe..rdf» (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem."

2) At next attempt Firefox does not allow to click "Next" button on the screen with Adobe Flash licence, even if you click "I agree" etc. - there is no "Next", there is only "Finish" button.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox 3 beta 5 on Ubuntu 7.10 with Flash plugin not installed.
2. Enter any site that require Flash; Firefox will inform that Flash plugin is missing.
3. Try to install Flash using built-in creator.
Actual Results:  
I either recieve report mentioned in "Details" or am not able to click "Next" on licence screen, seeing "Finish" button instead of it.

Expected Results:  
Software should install Flash properly, giving a report saying that Adobe Flash has been installed properly.