Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:29:35 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: John <nesredep@gmail.com>, "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@riderway.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper Message-ID: <4736690F.9090207@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <89073692@srv.sem.ipt.ru> References: <cff9f2d10711091320q7825f190r8dc373b80155a9bd@mail.gmail.com> <4734D8B0.1060200@riderway.com> <4734DA4C.90702@riderway.com> <89073692@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >>> John wrote: >>>> I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good >>>> progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do >>>> flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the >>>> linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. >>>> >>>> It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody >>>> installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. >>>> >>>> So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I >>>> would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? >>>> >>>> Is that easier? More likely to work? >>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html >> ----> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean > >> There is now: >> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean >> which you should use instead -- its newer :) Wow, what great timing, I was just starting to look about for a browser to give me flash. Let me ask this again, both for my own use, and for those folks (like me) who have googled this without success so far: if I wanted, as far as possible, to stay with FreeBSD-native apps (but willing to do whatever it takes, IF its the only way to success) how does someone get to having a browser run on FreeBSD, with the main requirement, that it run Flash. Oh. One more qualification (I can get a bit picky, I guess). I notice that there's a port for flashplugin9, not just 7. Is there ANY setup that allows flash9, not just flash7? The only limitation I keep active is, I don't run MS software. No Windows. I suppose, if it's the best way, I could even choose Wine (does this make me a Wino?) 'Preciate this, I'm anxious to get started. If I'm forced to it, I have a great amount of disk, I would give as much disk as it needs, to get this, I just need to overcome old prejudices over using too much disk. I guess I can't get used to having gigabytes, not megabytes, to play with.
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