From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 7 21:31:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC05A8C2 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA55810CC for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F963ADFA; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:31:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: NEVERMIND! Re: After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL In-Reply-To: <96818.1389125687@server1.tristatelogic.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:31:18 -0800 Message-ID: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com> Cc: Patrick Lamaiziere , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:31:19 -0000 I guess that I must have accidentally done something right. Anyway, flash is working perfectly now, for both Firefox and Opera. Thanks for your help. Regards, rfg P.S. While looking this problem, I went back to consult again the relevant page from the FreeBSD Handbook, i.e. http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html Under section 7.2.1.2 (Firefox and Adobe Flash Plugin), step 3 suggests doing the following: # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \ /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ Strangely, on my system I don't seem to even have a /usr/local/lib/npapi directory! It doesn't exist. And this is true even though the flash plugin is (as I have said) now working perfectly with both Firefox and Opera. So what gives? Is this particular passage from the Handbook obsolete and (now) inaccurate? If so, then I should probaby file a documentation PR or something, no? P.P.S. I am thinking that the Handbook reference to a /usr/local/lib/npapi directory is obsolete because I just now grepped the whole of: /var/db/pkg/linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.327_1/* for any mention of "npapi". There isn't any. That's what makes me think that the Handbook reference to a /usr/local/lib/npapi directory is perhaps bogus and obsolete.