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From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port??
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 16:34:45 +0000 Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote

> On 2017/03/08 16:04, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > Note that I haven't tried ver 52 of firefox, but from what I've read it
> > sounds like all plugins/addons other than flash are no longer supported.
I think the answer to your question can be answered by using pkg(8)'s
lock option. As memory serves; synth honors anything pkg has to offer.

HTH

--Chris
> 
> Make that: all *NPAPI* plugins other than Flash are now unsupported.
> That's stuff like the Java plugin or the OpenH264 Video Codec from Cisco
> (which I seem to have installed and can no-longer remember why.  Some
> sort of video conference thing a long time ago).
> 
> Ordinary add-ons like AddBlock-Plus or NoScript don't use NPAPI and so
> are not affected by this move.
> 
> I've been on version 52 on my Mac desktop for a while with no noticeable
> problems (well, none beyond what you normally got with FF in earlier
> versions.)
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew