From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 8 07:23:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E8DAFAE for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 07:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22b.google.com (mail-wg0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34D6F1806 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 07:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id k14so1082389wgh.10 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:23:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4YdrXxXqmE9tBmjOyWBRFCmmjpHI8T9snqdL4marbjo=; b=bwq6ZzpehOc2hDTWgZrfW2Fe+eOq5yLbfrpDTscH+5Pjf/F57Y9kxJfEnBRPXtOUhV hhRdxqoE1JDvc6KOSxN5jF3qSxcDZBTZ071Te6DY2uXqI8qcFzMEewGVBx+k42Vt375S mz8CkaYHFGAbnirGrA2bbMAhFpY7VM0pQ2EZBmjWm0h7FiL0dk1MBd/YDxe+RuJNQUZY KB2gNtRCmTGSg3LZ6aIPNzZ0MlN5ejXwzdm7RJKC4dtwxdpNWXkpZCaRu6j5sh9li/2H 7WNaJY/KSnUdih2B3vst6/8RmdIejiwuo6/8d7XsTT4g2q5ENEWr1+nCwvp6pHa/Uye4 jR/A== X-Received: by 10.180.36.105 with SMTP id p9mr19807683wij.58.1389165836606; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.2.15] (LNantes-156-74-19-50.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr. [82.127.90.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id md9sm7361548wic.1.2014.01.07.23.23.53 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:23:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52CCFCDF.7090707@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:23:11 +0100 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEVERMIND! Re: After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL References: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:23:58 -0000 On 07/01/2014 22:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > 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. Does it works really perfectly ? For me, it works unless I scroll the page too much which in that case destroy the flash context and goes full grey. It's a real pain. And some sites like http://deezer.com are almost unusable. Regards, > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"