Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:31:18 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NEVERMIND! Re: After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox & Opera have gone AWOL Message-ID: <1773.1389130278@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <96818.1389125687@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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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. 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 P.P.S. I am thinking that the Handbook reference to a /usr/local/lib/npapi directory is obsolete because I just now grepped the whole of: /var/db/pkg/linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.327_1/* for any mention of "npapi".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.
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