Back to making things work

Tried again to install the Macromedia Flash Player for Linux, which has Fedora specific RPMs. To make sure all of the links were correct I reinstalled the compat-libstdc++ and compat-libstdc++-devel RPMs. The Flash RPM found my copy of MozillaFirebird and put a link to the plugin in /usr/local/MozillaFirebird/plugins. Doing about:plugins in Firebird shows the plugin exists. Yet Flash pages don't play, and don't even show up. A continuing puzzlement.