[SOLVED]Firefox doesn't detect Flash plugin on a fresh installation

I have tried the package in extra and the package from AUR, but firefox still doesn't register the flash plugin. I'm probably just missing something here..
[tapio@Pochi flashplugin-alpha-64]$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
libflashplayer.so
Is there something extra I have to do other than installing the package? I looked at the old wiki page for using nspluginwrapper but I couldn't see anything that looked relevant..
Any help would be much appreciated.
Last edited by tzar (2008-12-21 05:36:35)

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