Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:01:47 -0600 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flash and firefox revisited Message-ID: <20060319070147.1wmpalrra8ks4oss@mail.bafirst.com> In-Reply-To: <20060318180947.GA95349@mail.scottro.net> References: <20060318180947.GA95349@mail.scottro.net>
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Quoting Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Although somewhat off-topic for CURRENT, when we had a discussion about > this last week, and I mentioned that flash worked well for me with > linux-firefox, a few people asked how I did it. At the time, I had set > it up awhile back, and didn't really remember the details. > > At any rate, set up a new machine this week, so this is how I got flash > working with linux-firefox. > > Rather than using the port, I downloaded the firefox for Linux tarball > from mozilla at > > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ > > I untarred it in my $HOME directory where it created a directory called, > oddly enough, firefox. In the firefox directory is a shell executable > called--yup, you guessed it, firefox. > > So, I started it from command line, with firefox/firefox and went to a > site that needed flash--I got the message that flash needed to be > installed, would I like firefox to install it for me, I clicked yes. It > then simply downloaded and installed flash7 putting it in > $HOME/firefox/plugins. > > After that, it Just Works(TM) > > I have linux_base-8 installed. That works fine for me too, but I haven't been able mplayer or any other video plugin to work with linux firefox, have you? So right no I am left with native firefox with nice embedded video and linux-firefox with flash, not yet the best of both worlds, in fact, I could probably live with only one world ;) Thanks, ed > > Hope this is of use to someone. It's one of those things I use > relatively rarely, so it isn't worth it (to me) to take the time to try > to figure out how to get the port's version to work, try testing it with > various linux elements missing, etc. > > > - -- > > Scott Robbins > > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Harmony: Is Antonio Banderas a vampire? > Spike:No. > Harmony: Can I make him one? > Spike: No. On second thought, yes. Go make him a vampire. Take > your time. Get Melanie and the kids, too. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFEHEzr+lTVdes0Z9YRAij6AJ9SBqZngV2e4aXEmCma/eMttXGhqwCgmD+V > 52dK4uz6J95VcJo3wdqBFSM= > =+Sbp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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