Flash plugin status

Thomas Quinot thomas at FreeBSD.ORG
Fri Sep 28 07:45:05 PDT 2007


* Kevin Oberman, 2007-09-27 :

> I did the update and ran:
> nspluginwrapper -i -v /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so \
> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> 
> (I don't like the Acrobat plugin, so I don't install that one.)
> 
> Note that nspluginwrapper must be run by each user before starting
> firefox. 

... unless you run nspluginwrapper as root, in which case it will
do what is needed for plugins to be available to all users.

> I have no joy to spread in Flash 9. Happily, most of the sites I use

Same, unfortunately. But nspluginwrapper was a huge progress for
me anyway (compared to linuxpluginwrapper).

Thomas.



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