Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:35:06 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash Plugin not working Message-ID: <200610181235.08113.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <b2807d040610152237g6cae3b43y59948ede1243148e@mail.gmail.com> References: <b2807d040610152237g6cae3b43y59948ede1243148e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 16 October 2006 06:37, Subhro wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on i386 hardware. I have installed > linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin from the ports collection. The > same is iterated by pkg_info. > > [bsdboy@phoenix ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash > linux-flashplugin-7.0r68 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin > [bsdboy@phoenix ~]$ linux-firefox > [bsdboy@phoenix ~]$ pkg_info | grep firefox > firefox-1.5.0.7,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > linux-firefox-1.5.0.7 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > > However when I am trying to open any sites from linux-firefox, the > embedded flash applications are not displayed. Also the browser/usr/local/bin/firefox > complains about missing plugin. I notice that you have both versions of Firefox. That's OK, but you can only run one at a time. If you have a native Firefox process running and you try to open linux-firefox, it just causes the original process to open a new window. I'm wondering if that's what's happened here. What I have at the moment is native Firefox and linux-opera. I found that linux-firefox had unclear fonts - possibly they weren't properly anti-aliased. There were also some problems with linux-firefox not being able to browse to external applications. Opera is better under linux emulation, in my experience, and can use the flash-plugin.
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