From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 19:25:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C05B16A418 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdathome@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mo2no.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA0113C46B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdathome@shaw.ca) Received: from pd6mr1no.prod.shaw.ca (pd6mr1no-qfe2.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.144.188]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JW600LLNWHUIYA0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from pd6ms1no.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.145.192]) by pd6mr1no.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JW600AYJWHT88O0@pd6mr1no.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from shaw.ca (pd6ms1no-con [10.0.145.192]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JW6005JYWHTI260@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.144.232] (Forwarded-For: [10.0.146.232]) by pd6ims1.prod.shaw.ca (mshttpd); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:25:05 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:25:05 -0800 From: Andriy Babiy In-reply-to: <20080212071631.64c5ad4a@scorpio> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal References: <47AFC80B.8090303@gmail.com> <47B05924.5000405@cs.okstate.edu> <5422555c0802120311nc7cdccar6bacce0314cff18a@mail.gmail.com> <20080212071631.64c5ad4a@scorpio> Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin? 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: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:25:23 -0000 > > 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