Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:53:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070949200.8934-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <42926.939294665@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Hi, On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 02:33:07 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > > > Does it make sense to get the Linux version? I've heard it may run > > better or have more plugins. Or is the native FBSD good enough? > > The advantage of the Linux version is that some plugins may work. > There aren't many (any?) plugins for the FreeBSD binary. There are a flew plugins for FreeBSD in the ports tree (flash just got committed and tclplugin is in there) and there's also the plugger port which acts as a plugin and pipes stuff through to external apps. Example: you have a quicktime movie plugin on some site - plugger goes and pipes the movie through to xanim (or a number of other possibilities). I've had moderate success with this - it won't help w/ Flash or using Real plugins, but you can use the flash plugin in ports now and have the Real stuff work as an external app, instead of a plugin and that works. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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