Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:50:45 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nspluginwrapper + native firefox 2 + flash9? Message-ID: <1568562575.20070413025045@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <17949.54850.460169.717849@whale.home-net> References: <17949.54850.460169.717849@whale.home-net>
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Hello John, Thursday, April 12, 2007, 9:48:34 AM, you wrote: > Hi everybody, I've been struggling with this all night and the archives + > google aren't coming up with much except for other people's success stories. > I recently ditched using the linux-firefox port in favor of the native version > when I read a post about nspluginwrapper. I've spent the last 2 days upgrading > many ports on my system. I think I've got things A-OK, but I cannot get > nspluginwrapper to do anything meaningful with the native firefox. > My config: > 6.2-STABLE as of april 10th > CVSup'ed ports tree as of April 10th > linux_base-fc-4_9 installed--do I need fc-6?? > linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3 also installed > firefox-2.0.0.3,1 compiled and installed > linux-flashplugin9 installed > I did the following: > % nspluginwrapper -v -i > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > saw: > Install plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so > after firing firefox back up and doing about:plugins I see what I hoped to see: > Shockwave Flash > > File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so > Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31 > > MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled > application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes > application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes > However whenever I visit a site that utilizes Flash, nothing shows up--not even > an 'outline' of what should be a flash file playing. > I've tried using nspluginwrapper -r to uninstall the plugin and use > linux-flashplugin7 but the results are the same. I've also tried using > linux-mplayer-plugin which yielded similar results: about:plugins showed a > plethora of MIME type's, descriptions, etc. but no dice. > Does anybody have any clues as to what's going wrong or things I could possibly > try? From all accounts seen via google, this has "just worked" for people ... :( > Thanks in advance. > -Jr I'm using konqueror with flash, and i followed this howto (http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php). I know you were looking for a way to get FF to work, but i gave up, and konqueror is working fine for me. -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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