flash 6 & mozilla

[CARTER Anthony]

> I really, really, really wish that there  would be an open source flash 
>plugin.

I really really really wish that so-called web standards were not proprietry 
software...But alas, flash is...

Anthony



On Thursday 24 April 2003 13:12, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > I have the libflashplayer_linux.so w/ LD_PRELOAD (flashpluginwrapper)
> > installed and it works OK. But when I install the new flash6 linux
> > plugin I get error messages like "libpthread.so.0 not found"
> > Am I to understand that native mozilla only supports flashplugin upto
> > version-5?
>
> Yes. I tried to solve the above problem by adding linux libraries into
> the plugin directory, after which mozilla (or phoenix in my case) no
> longer
> complained but always crashed on every flash movie.
>
> Unfortunately for some unfathomable reason more and more flash sites
> seem to
> absolutely *require* flash 6 :( I really, really, really wish that there
> would be an open source flash plugin.
>
> --Stijn