Flash player for either Konqueror or Firefox?
Scott Robbins
scottro at nyc.rr.com
Wed Jul 4 00:23:26 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:07:38PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Yeah, I've tried that and updated to Firefox 2 as well; if I try to have the
> flashplayer (there isn't a FreeBSD one, I'm attempting to use the Linux one)
> load it segfaults Firefox immediately.
>
> Opera doesn't work either.
]
Again, flash 7 or flash 9? As I said, at this point, flash 9 is quite
problematic.
>
> I think I'm stuck here; this is something that FreeBSD needs to get resolved if
> its going to be a serious contender in the desktop arena. I've got folks that
> would love to run this (and some Java apps) but its just not getting it
> done.......
I'm able to run both java and flash with firefox. (Although I can't get
linux-java working with linux-opera at this point.)
Others have had more luck with linux-firefox, linux-flash and
linux-java. It's true that these are harder to get working in FreeBSD
than they are in Linux, and are actually a bit behind, but most folks
manage to get one combo (or combination of combos) working in some way.
For me, native firefox works with java, linux-flash 7, acroread, and the
mplayer plugin. The linux-opera port works with acroread and flash.
For native firefox, I installed it, linux-flash 7, and then
nspluginwrapper. (I had acroread installed somewhere along the line.)
I then just ran nspluginwrapper -a -v -i and it worked without problem
(for me.)
On the other hand, I've run into lots of posts on bsdforums where people
have your problems, some eventually solved, others apparently not. I
realize that's not much help, but at least you know you're not alone.
:)
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