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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:40:12 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Message-ID:  <AANLkTil2KC3ansGXY4A_YZz5UEeMkLxodqbCS2Y69_t0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100616145325.13162e0a@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <AANLkTikVilkrvnNMTQ_wvB8AzX31_sUvpcykcv07E3Wf@mail.gmail.com> <20100615211740.GA50967@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100615154956.cfz6ip454w8gcco4@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <07A440BE-D29A-44CA-9F2D-16D1314A8B24@mac.com> <20100615161147.j4gokl7rk8sgwssw@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <AANLkTikTK2f0CPuCc8j-Omy_8sOPExWsHPXFbD13AUM1@mail.gmail.com> <20100616145325.13162e0a@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200
> "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training
>> <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
>> > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it
>> > would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going
>> > right now to do so.
>>
>> Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD. Never did,
>> and probably never will. They don't even care about 64-bit Linux
>> users...
>>
>> If you absolutely need Flash on FreeBSD, I'd suggest you install
>> VirtualBox, and inside VirtualBox a Flash-supported OS, like
>> OpenSolaris (that's what I do when I absolutely need Flash support).
>
> Windows Flash+Firefox under Wine works for me, I installed it when
> FreeBSD Flash was completely broken. I've never gone back because the
> inconvenience =A0of occasionally having to switch browsers, is not as bad
> as having flash all the time.

Ah, good to know. I'm using FreeBSD/amd64, that's why I didn't
think of Wine (IIRC, it's only for i386).

-cpghost.

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