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. ;) -- > Jerry =E2=99=94 > > -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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