From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 11 02:30:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0553216A419 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2CE13C4A3 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:30:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 497 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2007 02:30:30 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2007 02:30:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4736690F.9090207@chuckr.org> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:29:35 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boris Samorodov References: <4734D8B0.1060200@riderway.com> <4734DA4C.90702@riderway.com> <89073692@srv.sem.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <89073692@srv.sem.ipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John , "Philip M. Gollucci" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:30:43 -0000 Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >>> John wrote: >>>> I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good >>>> progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do >>>> flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the >>>> linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. >>>> >>>> It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody >>>> installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. >>>> >>>> So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I >>>> would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? >>>> >>>> Is that easier? More likely to work? >>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html >> ----> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean > >> There is now: >> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean >> which you should use instead -- its newer :) Wow, what great timing, I was just starting to look about for a browser to give me flash. Let me ask this again, both for my own use, and for those folks (like me) who have googled this without success so far: if I wanted, as far as possible, to stay with FreeBSD-native apps (but willing to do whatever it takes, IF its the only way to success) how does someone get to having a browser run on FreeBSD, with the main requirement, that it run Flash. Oh. One more qualification (I can get a bit picky, I guess). I notice that there's a port for flashplugin9, not just 7. Is there ANY setup that allows flash9, not just flash7? The only limitation I keep active is, I don't run MS software. No Windows. I suppose, if it's the best way, I could even choose Wine (does this make me a Wino?) 'Preciate this, I'm anxious to get started. If I'm forced to it, I have a great amount of disk, I would give as much disk as it needs, to get this, I just need to overcome old prejudices over using too much disk. I guess I can't get used to having gigabytes, not megabytes, to play with.