Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:58:44 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrey Simonenko <simon@simon.org.ua> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to enable Netscape plugins in Konqueror in KDE 2.2 ? Message-ID: <15318.37076.950207.869926@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20011024124519.O16154-100000@lion.com.ua> References: <15317.30281.485942.666350@guru.mired.org> <20011024124519.O16154-100000@lion.com.ua>
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Andrey Simonenko <simon@simon.org.ua> types: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Andrey Simonenko <simon@simon.org.ua> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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