From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 22:09:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82AD16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B5143D1F for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413B3C62956 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:09:07 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: Cvknj9Y5HIEyLEChsyPSlQ 1111010946 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-70-61.access.as9105.com [80.41.70.61]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C0E25535 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:09:05 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:04 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <4237908C.8060702@vilot.com> In-Reply-To: <4237908C.8060702@vilot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503162209.04864.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: flash plugin? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:09:08 -0000 On Wednesday 16 March 2005 01:49, Tom Vilot wrote: > I have the port flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 installed (using > firefox-1.0.1_2,1). I find that it crashes firefox pretty consistently. > > However, a quick grep of flash in the ports reveals these: > > > flash-0.9.5 > flashplugin-0.4.3 > flashplugin-firefox-0.4.12 > flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 > flashplugin-mozilla-devel-0.4.12 > flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113 > linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_2 > linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_2 > linux-flashplugin-7.0r25_1 > linuxpluginwrapper-20050119_1 > > Should I be using one of these? What are they all!? :c) The first one is a shell. Those that start with flashplugin are based on the third-party GPL version, which is a nice idea, but basically doesn't work. The linux-flashplugin versions are based on the a real macromedia produced linux binary, and work very well. If you are happy to run a third-party binary, then you need linuxpluginwrapper and one of the linux-flashplugin versions. I think version 6 is the stable port and 7 is a beta-port (the last time I looked it didn't work with firefox)