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From: Jeffrey Wood <j-wood@northwestern.edu>
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Subject: Re: mozilla with flash and java plugin
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>hello everyone.   I was woundering how I can get flash and java plugin to 
>work with freebsd 5.0   When I compile the flash plugin from the ports 
>collection, Mozilla crashes when trying to enter flash site.   Any solutions 
>to this?   I really don't know how to get java working at all.

I can't help you with the java, but I had the exact same problem with the 
flash plugin (I'm using FreeBSD 5.0 as well). I just followed the 
instructions here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
and flash worked just fine.

--Jeffrey Wood