Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: Tony McC <afmcc@btinternet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flashplugin Message-ID: <20091028222553.224ba333.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4AE89F54.7000901@videotron.ca> References: <4AE3944A.4090602@videotron.ca> <20091025062322.GA985@sandcat> <4AE63986.6090106@videotron.ca> <20091027051352.417ce684@scorpio.seibercom.net> <1256674827.6414.8.camel@lenzinote.wrinfo> <4AE7696F.1030601@videotron.ca> <20091028125318.44ee6593@elena.home> <20091028141025.248563e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AE8435E.7030202@videotron.ca> <20091028210542.4bde5c3a.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AE89F54.7000901@videotron.ca>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:24 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > Yeah, but stupid errors are not. Nobody can make all the errors. > anyway I goofed somewhere. but what is strange is that > the only obvious problem I have is this flashplugin - no matter what I > do, I cannot get it to work. But obviously, as others are running it, it's possible. > I do recall that at some point there was an update for flash or firefox > and I think I allowed Firefox to update it... so the problem just may be > with Firefox itself. That may be possible. > And I just don't feel like going through a > reinstallation of Firefox again... that is probably the most lengthy and > tortuous installation of anything except for OpenOffice.org (I only use > the binaries for that) and my cpus are 2.4 or 3Ghz. That's the reason that I really prefer precompiled packages. If you think that you system is all messed up, delete /usr/local and start installing from packages. Pay attention to run the files needed from /etc/mtree to restore the hierarchy for the /usr/local subtree. > Anyway, I've given > up on flash... I did so from its beginning. :-) > I don't go to youtube or the like so I don't really miss > it... There's youtube-dl. :-) > it's just annoying that I can't access some sites properly when > using FreeBSD. That's not FreeBSD's fault. If "professional web designers" need to "optimize" their content in order to prevent you from properly accessing it, it's their fault. I would complain to them, or just ignore them. Content that its creator doesn't want me to see is not worth seeing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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