From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 09:20:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0425916A416 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8BF43D73 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:20:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1961413wxd for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:20:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=az9TXD8sbp5bZPwqeH4Ka1UqB8p1li4s60De51bApVdkfIY1vi/kzGr6FPwjLhyRTyLKw7WIktME/X/lLt1sn5OtCpiRpGOMyjK4P01sg0vNxjt+E5p6OhgCUw6lYWNE181ooB54wAo8ucOH62SjrazCHHrvisbjQ2MNead6YIw= Received: by 10.90.117.11 with SMTP id p11mr1988791agc; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.98.12 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0028260609120220p3dbba37fv4ad5882e48e5dd65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:20:25 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45066F0F.9060109@voidcaptain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8a0028260609111328x44c8b425k3e6a07c61aac197e@mail.gmail.com> <20060911211916.xbvk6migrqw4k000@webmail.frontiernet.net> <86fyeyrsdo.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> <20060912021601.3qphot44b7s40wgs@webmail.frontiernet.net> <45066F0F.9060109@voidcaptain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox 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: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:20:36 -0000 On 12/09/06, Pete Slagle wrote: > > rance@frontiernet.net wrote: > > > uninstall firefox > > > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > > this step) > > > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > > and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" > > > > the ones I found most helpful where: > > linux-firefox > > linux-flashplugin7 > > linuxpluginwrapper > > > > you might also want to look at > > linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files > > Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap > Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs > Firefox, multimedia, cutting edge video drivers, wi-fi, and a bunch of > apps that are troublesome to configure on FreeBSD. > > You can then install VMware Server (also painless) and run a local > FreeBSD VM for quick desktop access when you need the Real Thing. It's > easy to SSH and VNC back and forth and open X windows between the two > systems and have the best of both worlds. > > Don't get me wrong; I far prefer working in FreeBSD to any other system, > and spend most of my time there. But life is just easier when you have > more tools close to your work area. It's simple to set up, and has been > rock solid for me. Well, I'm sorry you've all been beavering away offering helpful suggestions, because following rance's first suggestion i installed linux-firefox instead. Coincidentally, Pete - this FreeBSD install is already on a VMware image! The bare hardware is running SuSE. I had intended to run FreeBSD on the bare hardware, but it doesn't recognise either of the two wireless NICs (one was bought for use with Linux/BSD, the other is a Broadcom, argh!). As an aside, before finding that SuSE works with the PC card wifi NIC, I used FreeBSD on a VMware image in XP (thank God those days are over). It (FreeBSD) runs faster in VMware (which I understand is a customised Linux), running on SuSE Linux than XP did on the bare hardware. Go figure. In fact I just can't believe how fast it is - it used to crawl running Enlightenment stuck on top of XP, now it flies running KDE. Thanks for your suggestions, all.