Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:55:26 -0400 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: kiffin@gish.demon.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash ... Message-ID: <4332555E.2090409@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl> References: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl>
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Kiffin Gish wrote: > I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot > for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4. > > I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing > lists, etc, but still when there is a page with Flash, poor Firefox > chokes and dies. > > One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that > if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again > and then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even > flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird. > > What gives? > I used to run firefox with xfce 4.x about a year ago. It was hit or miss depending on how new and fancy the flash was. I just got rid of the plugin for a more stable experince. Try to login as a user and run firefox as root, and also login as root and run firefox as a normal user. With all 4 combinations you might get a clue as to wheater you should move on to a xfce or mozilla mailling list.
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