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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:20:01 +0200
From:      CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: flash 6 & mozilla
Message-ID:  <200304250920.01478.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
In-Reply-To: <20030424111238.GB65428@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
References:  <20030424111238.GB65428@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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> I really, really, really wish that there  would be an open source flash 
>plugin.

I really really really wish that so-called web standards were not proprietry 
software...But alas, flash is...

Anthony



On Thursday 24 April 2003 13:12, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > I have the libflashplayer_linux.so w/ LD_PRELOAD (flashpluginwrapper)
> > installed and it works OK. But when I install the new flash6 linux
> > plugin I get error messages like "libpthread.so.0 not found"
> > Am I to understand that native mozilla only supports flashplugin upto
> > version-5?
>
> Yes. I tried to solve the above problem by adding linux libraries into
> the plugin directory, after which mozilla (or phoenix in my case) no
> longer
> complained but always crashed on every flash movie.
>
> Unfortunately for some unfathomable reason more and more flash sites
> seem to
> absolutely *require* flash 6 :( I really, really, really wish that there
> would be an open source flash plugin.
>
> --Stijn



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