Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:11:55 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: linux flash plugin Message-ID: <18638.20747.697986.255028@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBGEMFCKAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBGEMFCKAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com>
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FBSD1 writes: > Running FreeBSD 7.0 Xorg/KDE/ Firefox browser. > Trying to use yahoo web messenger on Firefox. > The yahoo web messenger website says I need adobe flash player. > So I installed the linux-flashplugin7 from the package system. > > Still can not get yahoo web messenger to run on Firefox. > > Does any one have this working? Am I beating a dead horse? > > Any pointers would be helpful. Four cases: 1) native browser, flashplayer7. Problem: many sites require flashplayer9, also flash7 has known security issues. 2) native browser, flashplayer9. Problem: flash9 doesn't work, pretty much at all. Debugging is complex, made worse by flash* being a closed product. 3) Linux browser, flashplayer9. Reported to work much better, but still not trouble-free. (Anecdotal evidence says flash9 sometimes has probles on genuine Linux systems.) 4) Wine, Windows browser, Windows flashplayer. Reported to work well, but performance uncertain. Check with Wine docs (online) for possible problems. There are also gnash and swfdec; both support some but not all of flash7. Both are also native+open source, and under development. Robert Huff
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