From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 23:25:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E459937B40C for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.250.89]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:09:58 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fwd: Re: Mozilla 0.9.2 and flash plugin Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:09:54 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108010109540B.00583@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I meant to send this to the list . . . ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Mozilla 0.9.2 and flash plugin Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:03:20 -0400 From: Brian T. Schellenberger To: "Kevin Oberman" j On Tuesday 31 July 2001 19:20, you wrote: > > From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" > > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:00:48 -0400 > > > > Not really. There's a netscape plugin (see the ports collection for > > flashplugin), but it doesn't work with mozilla (at least for me); I think > > it fails because it tries to use an a.out file, which is obsolete, but > > I'm not sure if that's why. > > The problem is that it's a Linux plug-in. If you had a Linux build of > Mozilla and ran it on FreeBSD, the linux-flash plug-in should work (as > should other Linux plug-ins). Not really. There is both a Linux plugin and a native FreeBSD plugin. The Linux plugin is called linux-flashplugin and the FreeBSD one is called flashplugin. The Linux plugin is an official MacroMedia-based one, and I already run it in my Linux version of Netscape (which I have for all the web sites that require lots of fancy stuff) but I'd prefer to run flash in my (FreeBSD native) Mozilla browser and perhaps my (FreeBSD native) Konqueror browser as well. I use a lot of browsers here . . . The FreeBSD-native one is an independent implementation of a (slightly older) version of Flash, but appears not to have been maintained for some time, and since the port doesn't actually have source (it's a precompiled .o file) I'm not sure how to updated it properly. > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message