From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 14:22:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59DC16A412 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:22:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6416543D77 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:22:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F842DA6A22 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.internal ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:22:41 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: PesVTAcGcVWY+MIr5WA18Wb6hUxuVkWep58eMV+YZZTx 1158330160 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3025BEB for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100 From: RW To: FreeBSD Users Questions Message-ID: <257D290F82FC6FAB8865E52F@gumby.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060914215728.8113.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060914215728.8113.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.5 (Linux/x86) X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.5 (Freebsd/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Firefox+Flash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:22:41 -0000 --On Thursday, September 14, 2006 14:57:28 -0700 White Hat wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1 > > I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try > FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the > major problems is the inability to get flash to work > properly to display videos available on Google. I know > that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it > out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps > persuade them to try FBSD? Adobe have announced that Flash 8 and all previous versions have multiple critical vulnerabilities. Presumably Adobe have been sitting on these bugs for some time; a month or so after the release of Flash 9 is pretty convenient for them. Since the highest version of the linux plugin is 7, there is currently no Adobe version that can be run safely on Linux, BSD or Solaris. I understand that Adobe have indicated that there will eventually be a Linux Flash 9, and hopefully it will work on FreeBSD. There are open source versions, but they aren't much good in my experience, I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.