Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox+Flash Message-ID: <257D290F82FC6FAB8865E52F@gumby.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060914215728.8113.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060914215728.8113.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 14:57:28 -0700 White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1 > > I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try > FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the > major problems is the inability to get flash to work > properly to display videos available on Google. I know > that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it > out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps > persuade them to try FBSD? Adobe have announced that Flash 8 and all previous versions have multiple critical vulnerabilities. Presumably Adobe have been sitting on these bugs for some time; a month or so after the release of Flash 9 is pretty convenient for them. Since the highest version of the linux plugin is 7, there is currently no Adobe version that can be run safely on Linux, BSD or Solaris. I understand that Adobe have indicated that there will eventually be a Linux Flash 9, and hopefully it will work on FreeBSD. There are open source versions, but they aren't much good in my experience, I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.
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