Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:59:24 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting flash working with Firefox Message-ID: <20041222095924.1a08146d@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20041222084249.GA76803@0lsen.net> References: <20041222084249.GA76803@0lsen.net>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:42:49 -0800 Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> wrote: > I was on a website on Edmunds.com saying that I needed flash version > 7 in order for this chunk to work. So, I screwed around with the > linux flash plugin, but attempting to make this work (linking all > the dependent libraries required by the linux libflashplayer.so) in > the plugins directory resulted in a bus error. > > So, then I decided to try the firefox flash plugin. The Edumunds > site didn't seem to recognize this plugin since it still said I > needed version 7. > > The website: > > http://www.edmunds.com/il/comingsoon/index.html?tid=edmunds...globalheader..7.* > > 1) How do I make this work? Should I even be attempting to use the > Linux > flash plugin? > > 2) Where is this documented? I didn't see anything in the port. I > had to > cruise all over the web just to find out where to copy the linux > flash plugin etc in order to find out it doesn't work anyway. The native version of firefox needs a linux wrapper, if you are going to be using a linux plugin with it. Check out linuxpluginwrapper under the www directory. If I recall correctly, it does not handle flash 7 well yet, so you may be better off with linux-opera.
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