From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 11 02:53:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD76816A41F for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EEA43D5C for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBB2rCx4023050; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:53:12 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:53:25 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <439AB1A1.6030508@wanadoo.fr> <20051210171021.b70cdd07.dick@nagual.st> <20051210224528.GB11512@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051210224528.GB11512@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512101853.25399.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: Flash no longer displayed in Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:53:29 -0000 On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:45 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:10:21PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:36:28 -0800 > > > > "Michael C. Shultz" wrote: > > > Good information! To automate this with portmanager you can add > > > the following two lines to pm-020.conf: > > > > > > #below must be on one line > > > STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm > > > STOP|-R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln > > > -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| > > > > YEAH, the information is good, except for the symlinked > > browser_plugins. You should not do this. That is, when I'd done > > this this week, mozilla wouldn't start anymore. Error 76 on X. It > > stook me quite some time to find out that the symlinked plugins dir > > was to blame. I removed the browser_linux_plugins and mozilla > > worked again. All plugins just are in browser_plugins. Having a > > REAL browser_linux_plugin dir does not harm the system. > > Ya know, I'm almost to the point where I'd pay real money to > be able to play real, windows, and mp? files ((audioo)) > with mozilla andor firefox. It's hopeless. Even on my > ubuntu testbox, the config messes up. When realplayer can > play dog/doze media, they get 5 gold stars. > > (*sigh*) > One of the sad parts is that half of the real plugins for firefox are only available on Windows 2000/XP. You have all of these sites that don't test their web pages via a modem and then, can't understand when people are unhappy because their flash features take 5 minutes to start doing something. Last I read was that only 15% or so of the people have DSL or faster. The other 85% are being ignored. I maintain the computers in a genealogy center. I have to wait until people are through before I can become the administrator and update the virus signatures. While I am waiting, I listen to music on my mp3 player and watch what people are doing. I think most of the people start fiddling with the mouse after 20 seconds of inactivity and after 20 more seconds, you have lost them. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html