Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908200602180.69825@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200908201343.07634.tijl@ulyssis.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908191933390.67503@wonkity.com> <200908201343.07634.tijl@ulyssis.org>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2009 03:41:05 Warren Block wrote: >> On 8.0-BETA2 with www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 and www/firefox35 >> installed. >> >> As per the Handbook, a soft link in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. >> nspluginwrapper -a -i runs normally. >> >> linprocfs mounted, and nspluginwrapper -l shows >> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so. >> >> But about:plugins shows nothing but the "default plugin". >> >> Is something else necessary? > > I think you ran nspluginwrapper as root. If you run it as a normal > user it puts the wrapped plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins where Firefox > picks it up. If you run it as root it puts it in > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins. Firefox 2.x and some other browsers > scan this directory, but newer versions don't for some reason. You have > to create a symlink in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ to the > npwrapper plugin in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ That works! I had first run nspluginwrapper -a -i as normal user, then as root. There is no ~/.mozilla directory for either root or normal user. But this is the first machine I've set up where Firefox3.5 was a fresh install, not an update to a previous version. Should the Handbook instructions be updated? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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