Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

On Friday 09 November 2007 4:20 pm, 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?

Does it perform almost as well as the native FreeBSD version?

Any input would be appreciated.

John


John,

I posed a similar question on this list a short time ago. Right now, the
only 'Flash' working on either Linux or native is Flash 7, which does not
work on many sites. To get Flash 9, you need to use wine under freebsd and
install the windows version of Firefox. I have been told that this solution
works fine "out of the box" on FreeBSD 6.2 but I have not yet confirmed.

Mark Moellering
mark@xxxxxxxx








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