Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 Message-ID: <ML-3.4.939320097.7031.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070949200.8934-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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On 7-Oct-99 at 06:55, Brett Taylor (brett@peloton.runet.edu) wrote: > 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) Another one available as source is UMP - the Unix MIDI Plugin. > 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. Note that if the external app can take a command-line parameter to tell it to display in a pre-allocated window, it can be made to appear as an in-line plug-in instead of an external app. Personally, for me the desire to run native mode programs outweighs the advantages of the few available Linux plugins. And even if I were to switch to the Linux Netscape; I'd still download each new FreeBSD version just to keep their hit rate up and let them know there's interest in keeping it up to date; and maybe even making an official FreeBSD release. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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