Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:14:15 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash ... Message-ID: <200509210314.16166.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl> References: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl>
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On Monday 19 September 2005 20:57, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot > for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4. > > I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing lists, > etc, but still when there is a page with Flash, poor Firefox chokes and > dies. > > One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that > if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again and > then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even > flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird. > > What gives? do you have linux-flashplugin and linuxpluginwrapper? have you configured /etc/libmap.conf as specified when the linuxpluginwrapper installs BTW I don't have plugger installed - I don't think it's needed.
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