From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 11:35:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A143C16A403 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E8143D45 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:35:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A38DB54A3 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:35:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by db2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:35:12 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: lfCDJbLfG6wLSOQ43J/09+a9G9oAKZRUgEvKYcOwMV3o 1161171311 Received: from gumby.localdomain (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB287A23 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:35:11 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:35:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610181235.08113.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Flash Plugin not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:35:13 -0000 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.