Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:25:05 -0800 From: Andriy Babiy <freebsdathome@shaw.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin? Message-ID: <f31faeac15b5.47b2c581@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080212071631.64c5ad4a@scorpio> References: <47AFC80B.8090303@gmail.com> <47B05924.5000405@cs.okstate.edu> <5422555c0802120311nc7cdccar6bacce0314cff18a@mail.gmail.com> <BAY143-W42499732E99A692AC93D638D2B0@phx.gbl> <20080212071631.64c5ad4a@scorpio>
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> > Hah! Good luck... I never got it work either, There are > wrappers all > > other barriers to stop you. And even then it may only work > > intermittently. Correct me if I'm wrong guys > > I hear you. I have used both Firefox and Opera and have never gotten > flash to work as easily and consistently as it does under > Windows. When > the added burden of having to use wrappers, etc, it is just not worth > the hassle. I have seen references to system linking files to make > flash work; however, I have better things to do than invest huge > amounts of time attempting to get something to work when it is already > technologically possible to do so without all that individual > intervention. > > It does seem rather ironic that we claim that FreeBSD is a > superior OS > to Microsoft's Windows; however, we are unable to get even a > common web > add-on like flash to work reliably, consistently. Finger > pointing does > not alleviate the situation. About a month ago I installed it from ports along with firefox, and it was nothing more than described in the handbook. The only thing - I used nspluginwrapper instead of linuxpluginwrapper. Andriy
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