From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 11:16:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A515A157E1 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG id 11ZI4C-000220-00; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:15:00 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA23389; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:14:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: 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 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