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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:54:40 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?
Message-ID:  <CADGWnjWZdbFgaE8xBWHaihKR4dv2TWoHmC2zZ4a1779W2a-YUg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130407062158.08e1c3fb@scorpio>
References:  <20130406213911.GB2802@schweikhardt.net> <1365285205.709.7.camel@archlinux> <1365285467.709.10.camel@archlinux> <20130407062158.08e1c3fb@scorpio>

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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf articulated:
>
> > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYwn2Lz5zmYg
> > >
> > > Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither
> > > flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial,
> > > before the video can be watched? Wicked!
> > >
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DoUPtiYiMCbQ
> > >
> > > Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash.
> >
> > Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR
>
> I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that
> utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like "comedy Central" are
> just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or
> Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java "up-to-date"
> far easier.
>

Nearly the same here: I'm keeping two virtual machines on my FreeBSD
laptop: a Windows 7 and a Linux one, and I'm starting the Win7 VM when
I stumble across that oddball Flash-only website that would not even displa=
y
on the Linux VM. This way, I'm keeping a clean and lean FreeBSD environment=
,
unpolluted by tons of Linuxulator compat libraries needed just to make
that flash plugin work.

Plus, it's easier to reset the Win7 VM to a previous virus-free stage after
each use... even though something like this
  http://www.qubes-os.org/trac
would be even better, I assume. ;)

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> Jerry =E2=99=94
>
>
-cpghost.

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