Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:30:41 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2 Message-ID: <20090820123041.GA1239@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908200602180.69825@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908191933390.67503@wonkity.com> <200908201343.07634.tijl@ulyssis.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908200602180.69825@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:12:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > 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. > The Handbook says: -- Once the right Flash port, according to the FreeBSD version you run, is installed, the plugin must be installed by each user with nspluginwrapper: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i -- So you should not run it 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. > Here what I did: % rm -rf .mozilla % nspluginwrapper -l % nspluginwrapper -a -i % nspluginwrapper -l /home/marc/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Original plugin: /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so Wrapper version string: 1.2.2 So even if a $HOME/.mozilla does not exist, it'll be created by nspluginwrapper. > Should the Handbook instructions be updated? > I don't think it's needed here. -- Marc
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