From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 18:12:10 2008 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 D4278106564A for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:12:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CB88FC1F for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:12:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with SMTP id m5GICvp5021953 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:12:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:11:50 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080616201150.9308cd17.dick@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080616140519.04515bc5@scorpio> References: <200806071500.28001.derek.graham@att.net> <20080608000350.00006173@westmark> <20080608021633.GA6799@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <200806080420.31427.gnemmi@gmail.com> <11167f520806080234u2b9e29b0l13c513d783ccadaa@mail.gmail.com> <20080615221249.GA86486@kokopelli.hydra> <20080616091453.I96785@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080616002729.341931f8@gom.home> <20080616095059.L96979@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080616140519.04515bc5@scorpio> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0rc2 (GTK+ 2.12.3; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: Flashplugin 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: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:12:10 -0000 On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:05:19 -0400 Gerard wrote: > All this nonsense about using third party programs to download content > from sites such as, but not limited to YouTube, is just unacceptable. > If I navigate to a URL, I fully expect to be able to view all of that > site's content as easily using FreeBSD as I can using Window's with > IE. or even Firefox. Anything less is just not acceptable. Then you have a few options: 1. use windows 2. use linux 3. use solaris 4. buy Adobe The latter simply does not support native FreeBSD. But I agree with you: Flash is not always shit or not needed. Quite a few times it gives somthing extra that makes the web more attractive. People stating it's advertizing 99% of the time are simply wrong. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv90 ++