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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:04 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: flash plugin?
Message-ID:  <200503162209.04864.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <4237908C.8060702@vilot.com>
References:  <4237908C.8060702@vilot.com>

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On Wednesday 16 March 2005 01:49, Tom Vilot wrote:
> I have the port flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 installed (using
> firefox-1.0.1_2,1). I find that it crashes firefox pretty consistently.
>
> However, a quick grep of flash in the ports reveals these:
>
>
> flash-0.9.5
> flashplugin-0.4.3
> flashplugin-firefox-0.4.12
> flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12
> flashplugin-mozilla-devel-0.4.12
> flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113
> linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_2
> linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_2
> linux-flashplugin-7.0r25_1
> linuxpluginwrapper-20050119_1
>
> Should I be using one of these? What are they all!? :c)

The first one is a shell.  Those that start with flashplugin are based on the 
third-party GPL version, which is a nice idea, but basically doesn't work. 
The linux-flashplugin  versions are based on the a real macromedia produced 
linux binary, and work very well. 

If you are happy to run a third-party binary, then you need linuxpluginwrapper  
and one of the linux-flashplugin versions. I think version 6 is the stable 
port and 7 is a beta-port (the last time I looked it didn't work with 
firefox) 



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