Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:58:13 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> Cc: Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius@gmail.com>, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash Message-ID: <46C68A75.7030405@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20070818013916.3c4f8cfc@spaceman.my.domain> References: <200708171651.43582.cblasius@gmail.com> <46C5CEF4.5080004@shopzeus.com> <20070818013916.3c4f8cfc@spaceman.my.domain>
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Jona Joachim wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200 > Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> wrote: > > >> Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively, >>> step by step? >>> >> The only native solution I know of is "gnash" but last time I tried >> it it was very unstable and very slow. >> > > gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. > It features some great improvements. It can for example play YouTube > videos without too many problems. > I heard very promising things about gnash last week. > gnash has already a lot of advantages compared to the 'real thing' from > Adobe. For example it runs on many platforms where Adobe's Flash > doesn't run. It will also perhaps soon hit the iPhone. > Useless to say Adobe are not so happy about it ;) > > Best regards, > Jona > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I built and installed gnash 0.8.1 this evening. The only additional dependency not installed by the 0.7.x version that I needed was agg (/usr/ports/graphics/agg). Interestingly enough, while the new plugin choked Firefox 2.0.0.5 and Seamonkey 1.14 on pages that had embedded flash files, Konqueror 3.5.7 handled most embedded Flash that was < = 7. I built (and ran) it on a GateWay laptop running 6.2-STABLE: FreeBSD access 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Thu Jul 26 00:54:56 EDT 2007 root@access.smsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCESS i386 It still needs work, but it looks like it is headed in the right direction. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT
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