Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:56:14 -0700 From: "David E. Thiel" <lx@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... Message-ID: <20080624225613.GA70561@redundancy.redundancy.org> In-Reply-To: <bab706780806241241l2bff8f9fkba148cc9b09af5ba@mail.gmail.com> References: <200806241817.m5OIHLYU086621@fire.js.berklix.net> <48613EBA.507@cyberbotx.com> <bab706780806241241l2bff8f9fkba148cc9b09af5ba@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > 0. Install wine ( emulators/wine ) > 1. Download firefox for windows ( > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html ) > 2. Run: wine "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe" > 3. Complete the installer > 4. To run firefox you need to do something like: wine "C:/Program > Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe" (I forget the exact path / command > name) > 5. Navigate to the adobe flash download page ( use goole or something > ) and download the flash installer for windows. > 6. When the download is complete, run it ( should be able to do this > from the download manager in firefox ) > 7. Complete the flash installer ( this will require you to close > firefox, so do that ) > 8. Start firefox again (see the wine firefox.exe command from above) > 9. Create a script to start firefox under wine since the command is so ugly. This works surprisingly well. One note - you may want to undefine LC_CTYPE if you have it set to a non-standard value, as FF seems to crash otherwise.
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