From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 2:58:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D73E37B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 02:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 86587 invoked by uid 100); 24 Oct 2001 09:58:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15318.37076.950207.869926@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:58:44 -0500 To: Andrey Simonenko Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to enable Netscape plugins in Konqueror in KDE 2.2 ? In-Reply-To: <20011024124519.O16154-100000@lion.com.ua> References: <15317.30281.485942.666350@guru.mired.org> <20011024124519.O16154-100000@lion.com.ua> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrey Simonenko types: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Andrey Simonenko types: > > > Really I need to have Flash5 support in Konqueror (I use FreeBSD 4.4, > > > X-3.3.6, KDE-2.2). Can anybody help with this? > > The Netscape plugins only work with Linux binaries. So you need to > > install the Linux version of Konquerer, meaning you'll need the rest > > of the KDE libraries that it uses installed in your linux emulation as > > well. > It's bad, I still can't understand why some companies can't provide *BSD > version of their software (Flash5 plugin for example). Because the easy part of doing software is writing it. > > I'd suggest just keeping the linux version of Netscape around for when > > you have to use Flash5. > Netscape 4.76 and 6.0 has bugs with HTML parsing, with Russian and > Ukrainian code pages and some others, which it inherited from its original > versions. That's why I said "for when you have to use Flash5." Use Konqueror for everything else. That's the way the web has been since 1993 - no single browser will correctly handle everything on the web, because web designers and clues appear to be immiscible. If you have to have them both at the same time - run the two browsers side by side. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message