From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 18:45:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F9A16A418 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tad1214@aol.com) Received: from mail.gertens.com (mail.gertens.com [68.178.61.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43E813C46A for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tad1214@aol.com) Received: (qmail 48249 invoked by uid 1003); 14 Jan 2008 12:18:34 -0600 Received: from 192.168.1.96 by Pine.gertens.com (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.91.1/3682. spamassassin: 3.2.1. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.96):. Processed in 0.031336 secs); 14 Jan 2008 18:18:34 -0000 X-Antivirus-GERTENS-Mail-From: tad1214@aol.com via Pine.gertens.com X-Antivirus-GERTENS: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.96):. Processed in 0.031336 secs Process 48243) Received: from unknown (HELO OFF-008.gertens.com) (192.168.1.96) by mail.gertens.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2008 12:18:34 -0600 Message-ID: <478BA77A.2020609@aol.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:18:34 -0600 From: Thomas Donnelly User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <200801141801.SAA24992@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: <200801141801.SAA24992@sopwith.solgatos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Flash plugin on 7.0, what are my options? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:45:16 -0000 Dieter wrote: >>> If you run the 32bit version of FreeBSD. For 64bit I would be >>> surprised if it works (flashplugin is 32bit, and the native firefox >>> would be 64bit, this doesn't work together, you could try with >>> linux-firefox in this case, as it is 32bit too). >>> >> Thanks for the tip Alexander. Linux-firefox does start flash on >> youtube.com for example but crashes within a few seconds on AMD64 for >> me. This could be a problem with the linux and linux kernels that I'm >> using. I'm going to keep trying to get a wining combination and this >> could be a start. >> > > I tried to compile firefox awhile back and it wasn't even in the same > universe as LP64 clean. Over 35,000 compiler warnings, many of which > should be fatal errors. Fixed a lot of them and it still crashed > instantly. Is firefox any better today? > > Are there any web browsers with a reasonable combination of quality > and features? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I am a bit partial to Opera, Fast, Easy, and lots of features. Never tried getting flash to work in it but it should be fine with the plug-in wrappers. -=Tom