From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 22:18:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5A01065678 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (five.mired.org [66.92.153.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52F98FC0A for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 1548 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Jun 2008 18:18:21 -0400 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (bhuda [192.168.195.1]) by bhuda (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:18:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:17:54 -0400 To: Naram Qashat Message-ID: <20080624181754.6af765d8@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <48613EBA.507@cyberbotx.com> References: <200806241817.m5OIHLYU086621@fire.js.berklix.net> <48613EBA.507@cyberbotx.com> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Stacey , Mark Carlson Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:29 -0000 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:42 -0400 Naram Qashat wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > "Mark Carlson" wrote: > >> On 6/19/08, John Kozubik wrote: > > ..... Elided ... > >>> [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary > >>> Compat anyway... > >> I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so > > > > Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / script URL please ? > > I'd like to chime in here and say there is nothing special to get this > configuration to work. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install it > via Wine, then download the Windows version of Flash for Firefox and install > that with Wine. Once you do that, you have Flash in Firefox using Wine. Like > has been said, Wine is far from perfect, but this works great until a native > Flash can be made for FreeBSD. Not only that, but you've restricted Flash's access to your Wine environment. Give that it - by design - loads and executes code from unknown and hence untrustworthy individuals, this is a good thing in and of itself. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org