From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 11:57:21 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 E3D7B16A522 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:57:21 +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 8545043D67 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:57:21 +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 68CF4DA59D2 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.internal ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:57:21 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: U4hImbb8ROfIJ3ArD1kVhbyic6Dg72qRa6ytsJAZ2d6Y 1158062240 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 E057443A7 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:57:20 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:57:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <8a0028260609111328x44c8b425k3e6a07c61aac197e@mail.gmail.com> <20060912021601.3qphot44b7s40wgs@webmail.frontiernet.net> <45066F0F.9060109@voidcaptain.com> In-Reply-To: <45066F0F.9060109@voidcaptain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609121257.16933.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox 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: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:57:22 -0000 On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:25, Pete Slagle wrote: > Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap > Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs > Firefox, multimedia, ... Has this changed? I have an Ubuntu live cd and wasn't very inpressed. It's Firefox has no flash support and no video plugin. I've never had any serious problems with FreebSD and Multimedia in general - quite the opposite actually.