Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:23:23 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash player for either Konqueror or Firefox? Message-ID: <20070704002323.GA46732@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <468AC8AA.9050308@denninger.net> References: <468AB3F3.1040402@denninger.net> <20070703205209.GA12457@mail.scottro.net> <468AC8AA.9050308@denninger.net>
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:07:38PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > Yeah, I've tried that and updated to Firefox 2 as well; if I try to have the > flashplayer (there isn't a FreeBSD one, I'm attempting to use the Linux one) > load it segfaults Firefox immediately. > > Opera doesn't work either. ] Again, flash 7 or flash 9? As I said, at this point, flash 9 is quite problematic. > > I think I'm stuck here; this is something that FreeBSD needs to get resolved if > its going to be a serious contender in the desktop arena. I've got folks that > would love to run this (and some Java apps) but its just not getting it > done....... I'm able to run both java and flash with firefox. (Although I can't get linux-java working with linux-opera at this point.) Others have had more luck with linux-firefox, linux-flash and linux-java. It's true that these are harder to get working in FreeBSD than they are in Linux, and are actually a bit behind, but most folks manage to get one combo (or combination of combos) working in some way. For me, native firefox works with java, linux-flash 7, acroread, and the mplayer plugin. The linux-opera port works with acroread and flash. For native firefox, I installed it, linux-flash 7, and then nspluginwrapper. (I had acroread installed somewhere along the line.) I then just ran nspluginwrapper -a -v -i and it worked without problem (for me.) On the other hand, I've run into lots of posts on bsdforums where people have your problems, some eventually solved, others apparently not. I realize that's not much help, but at least you know you're not alone. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Now, we can do this the hard way or... well, actually, there's just the hard way. Darla: That's fine with me. Buffy: Are you sure? Now this is not gonna be pretty. We're talking violence, strong language, adult content.
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