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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Outdated instructions in the Handbook for installing Flash?
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Bruce Cran wrote:

> I tried following the instructions for installing Flash from 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html 
> and found they appear to be outdated.  The firefox plugins directory 
> for 3.6 appears to be /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and 
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins doesn't exist. Also, I had to run 
> nspluginwrapper -v -i 
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/libflashplayer.so to install it, since 
> -a didn't seem to look in the global plugins directory. I guess 
> avoiding the symlink step and just using the original file would work 
> too.

I've always just created /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins.  The rest of
the steps work as shown if you do that.  Probably that step should be 
added or edited.