From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 18 06:28:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7F016A417 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B327513C468 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (ool-18bb7953.dyn.optonline.net [24.187.121.83]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JMY00DX9GLCK2H0@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:58:13 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <20070818013916.3c4f8cfc@spaceman.my.domain> To: Jona Joachim Message-id: <46C68A75.7030405@wallnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <200708171651.43582.cblasius@gmail.com> <46C5CEF4.5080004@shopzeus.com> <20070818013916.3c4f8cfc@spaceman.my.domain> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070812 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Zbigniew Komarnicki , Laszlo Nagy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash 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: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:28:27 -0000 Jona Joachim wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200 > Laszlo Nagy 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