From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 7 10:54:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B284CCB for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com (mail-lb0-f175.google.com [209.85.217.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145901D4 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f175.google.com with SMTP id o10so4931176lbi.34 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:54:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=lEY3y030KErGkMVDJstC7nmUzOLnGJMgxV0a1vJPn9c=; b=hNloJua5xRrCGdMJsdkqcIK7DgFLCXLFXsB3TM8h41WLJETgRQCZyJIcRdEJJWPy2G VpkMIlM2gZAq7njxwrexF4mZWfL/rwH7+XhHatWiBbVMpOjZmFs/Q/sk1jewYVsB+AUV 7XBKvWtFR104YIIDa6L9x8Zt/X7kJozqtYMFBSxjIwrFXiZodW3AAKqB3jtsih8a9j8P /OZiXPMMSNCWvp0lAgEaRHH9bPg6SSlIbcpfSefY2bW8gCgfMIBOEOlNNqBKMuGJ/p3x kkCSmUanmrIyFYSQG54iLfOnYM/ABXCaue1BHicp46idTnxHOcl9eBHR1In8iWUp9py3 TSvg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.132.166 with SMTP id ov6mr7934349lbb.71.1365332080992; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.8.105 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 03:54:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.173.86] In-Reply-To: <20130407062158.08e1c3fb@scorpio> References: <20130406213911.GB2802@schweikhardt.net> <1365285205.709.7.camel@archlinux> <1365285467.709.10.camel@archlinux> <20130407062158.08e1c3fb@scorpio> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:54:40 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken? From: "C. P. Ghost" To: FreeBSD X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlReYt39ZJlxsgp56p3FFDkGO2Cc5656bjFRcHdfLlKjPJYODuwM/IBMPpMlVTpqJhg6R/w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:54:48 -0000 On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf articulated: > > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYwn2Lz5zmYg > > > > > > Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither > > > flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, > > > before the video can be watched? Wicked! > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DoUPtiYiMCbQ > > > > > > Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. > > > > Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR > > I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that > utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like "comedy Central" are > just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or > Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java "up-to-date" > far easier. > Nearly the same here: I'm keeping two virtual machines on my FreeBSD laptop: a Windows 7 and a Linux one, and I'm starting the Win7 VM when I stumble across that oddball Flash-only website that would not even displa= y on the Linux VM. This way, I'm keeping a clean and lean FreeBSD environment= , unpolluted by tons of Linuxulator compat libraries needed just to make that flash plugin work. Plus, it's easier to reset the Win7 VM to a previous virus-free stage after each use... even though something like this http://www.qubes-os.org/trac would be even better, I assume. ;) -- > Jerry =E2=99=94 > > -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/