Updated: 15 April, 2012

by FreeFind

Many websites require various browser plugins to be installed to function as expected. Here are some plugins that you may want to install.


Flash is used on tons of websites for embedded video, animations, games, ads and sometimes even site navigation.

The package flash-player should be installed automatically on the first run of the package manager, or you can install it manually (Main Repository (NON-OSS) is required).

Installing Flash in the terminal:
Java web applets are used for games, home banking in some countries, and various other things.

Install the package icedtea-web with the package manager if it isn't already installed.

Installing Java browser plugin in the terminal:
To get support for various multimedia streams in Firefox and other browsers, install the package xine-browser-plugin (Packman Repository required).

Installing multimedia plugin in the terminal:
Microsoft have created something called Silverlight to compete with Adobe Flash in making the web require proprietary extensions.

As you'd expect Microsoft do not provide an official plugin for GNU/Linux, but so far they have contributed somewhat to the creation of an unofficial implementation - Moonlight - it's available as an extension for Firefox and Chromium, go to:
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

Google provide voice and video chat with Google services on GNU/Linux with a browser plugin. Download the RPM files for openSUSE here:
http://www.google.com/chat/video