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After having been persuaded that I had to try GreaseMonkey, the first thing I had to do was get Firefox 1.5.
Running Debian unstable means that package names tend to change on you, this time from "mozilla-firefox" to just "firefox", so the command to upgrade was:
apt-get install firefox
Another change was that libraries are no longer installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, but /usr/lib/firefox. This meant, of course, that none of my plugins worked. First step was to down load Java from here. I then cd'd to /usr/local/java, and ran the shell script, which extracted it to /usr/local/java/jre1.5.0_06. To get the new firefox install to locate the Java plugin I needed to do:
cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins ln -s /usr/local/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
The next was the Flash plugin which I installed from here. Then I untared it and copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and flashplayer.xpt to your /usr/lib/firefox/components.
Flash still didn't work. I found out why here. I am using Adblock and Flash won't work with the OBJ-TABS option on. To turn it off, I went to Tools > Adblock > Preferences, clicked on "Adblock Options" and ensured that Obj-Tabs was unchecked.
Flash now works.
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