Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:23:11 +0100 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEVERMIND! Re: After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL Message-ID: <52CCFCDF.7090707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On 07/01/2014 22:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I guess that I must have accidentally done something right. > > Anyway, flash is working perfectly now, for both Firefox and Opera. > > Thanks for your help. Does it works really perfectly ? For me, it works unless I scroll the page too much which in that case destroy the flash context and goes full grey. It's a real pain. And some sites like http://deezer.com are almost unusable. Regards, > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. While looking this problem, I went back to consult again the relevant > page from the FreeBSD Handbook, i.e. > > http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html > > Under section 7.2.1.2 (Firefox and Adobe Flash Plugin), step 3 suggests > doing the following: > > # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \ > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ > > Strangely, on my system I don't seem to even have a /usr/local/lib/npapi > directory! It doesn't exist. And this is true even though the flash > plugin is (as I have said) now working perfectly with both Firefox and > Opera. So what gives? Is this particular passage from the Handbook > obsolete and (now) inaccurate? If so, then I should probaby file a > documentation PR or something, no? > > P.P.S. I am thinking that the Handbook reference to a /usr/local/lib/npapi > directory is obsolete because I just now grepped the whole of: > > /var/db/pkg/linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.327_1/* > > for any mention of "npapi". There isn't any. That's what makes me think > that the Handbook reference to a /usr/local/lib/npapi directory is perhaps > bogus and obsolete. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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