From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 12:12:27 2009 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 A0592106568D for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:12:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610198FC16 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7KCCNDD069895; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n7KCCN8F069892; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Tijl Coosemans In-Reply-To: <200908201343.07634.tijl@ulyssis.org> Message-ID: References: <200908201343.07634.tijl@ulyssis.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:23 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2 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: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:12:27 -0000 On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2009 03:41:05 Warren Block wrote: >> On 8.0-BETA2 with www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 and www/firefox35 >> installed. >> >> As per the Handbook, a soft link in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. >> nspluginwrapper -a -i runs normally. >> >> linprocfs mounted, and nspluginwrapper -l shows >> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so. >> >> But about:plugins shows nothing but the "default plugin". >> >> Is something else necessary? > > I think you ran nspluginwrapper as root. If you run it as a normal > user it puts the wrapped plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins where Firefox > picks it up. If you run it as root it puts it in > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins. Firefox 2.x and some other browsers > scan this directory, but newer versions don't for some reason. You have > to create a symlink in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ to the > npwrapper plugin in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ That works! I had first run nspluginwrapper -a -i as normal user, then as root. There is no ~/.mozilla directory for either root or normal user. But this is the first machine I've set up where Firefox3.5 was a fresh install, not an update to a previous version. Should the Handbook instructions be updated? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA