From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 6:54:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5E815099 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09068; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:53:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:53:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 In-Reply-To: <42926.939294665@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 02:33:07 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > > > Does it make sense to get the Linux version? I've heard it may run > > better or have more plugins. Or is the native FBSD good enough? > > The advantage of the Linux version is that some plugins may work. > There aren't many (any?) plugins for the FreeBSD binary. There are a flew plugins for FreeBSD in the ports tree (flash just got committed and tclplugin is in there) and there's also the plugger port which acts as a plugin and pipes stuff through to external apps. Example: you have a quicktime movie plugin on some site - plugger goes and pipes the movie through to xanim (or a number of other possibilities). I've had moderate success with this - it won't help w/ Flash or using Real plugins, but you can use the flash plugin in ports now and have the Real stuff work as an external app, instead of a plugin and that works. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message