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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:11:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>
To:        Charles Bacon <crtb@cape.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox plugins
Message-ID:  <20070828045203.N10632@small>
In-Reply-To: <20070827192949.K41683@tomato.local>
References:  <20070827192949.K41683@tomato.local>

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Charles Bacon wrote:

> I'm unable to find any reference to amd64 on Firefox FAQ and other
> info sources.  I have an EVGA mobo with an AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.2
> perfectly, with Firefox.  But every attempt at a plugin complains
> either that it isn't windows or that it's an amd64.  I really want to
> run Flash material.  Any ideas?
Adobe only distributes linux binaries, so you need 
linux-compatibility.
On i386 the idea is to install
  	/usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
but that doesn't work with amd64 yet.

Some people on this list claimed to be able to run
 	/usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin9
in linux-opera or linux-firefox with linux_base-fc6, but the 
latter will only be available with upcoming FreeBSD 7.0 branch.

So for FreeBSD 6.2 now only /usr/ports/swfdec-plugin or 
/usr/ports/graphics/gnash remain. Both are OpenSource projects 
and can display something like flash 4 files or just crash your 
browser.

Good luck,

Uli.


>
> 	Chuck Bacon -- crtb@cape.com
> 		ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY
>
> PS: next I may ask about codecs for Audacity :-)
> PPS: I try to be complete, so here's uname -a:
>
> FreeBSD daisy.local 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 08:32:24 
> UTC 2007    root@portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany




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