Getting flash working with Firefox

Daniel Frazier dfrazier at glengroup.com
Wed Dec 22 12:06:31 PST 2004


Clint Olsen wrote:
> I was on a website on Edmunds.com saying that I needed flash version 7 in
> order for this chunk to work.  So, I screwed around with the linux flash
> plugin, but attempting to make this work (linking all the dependent
> libraries required by the linux libflashplayer.so) in the plugins directory
> resulted in a bus error.
> 
> So, then I decided to try the firefox flash plugin.  The Edumunds site
> didn't seem to recognize this plugin since it still said I needed version
> 7.
> 
> The website:
> 
> http://www.edmunds.com/il/comingsoon/index.html?tid=edmunds...globalheader..7.*
> 
> 1) How do I make this work?  Should I even be attempting to use the Linux
>    flash plugin?
> 
> 2) Where is this documented?  I didn't see anything in the port.  I had to
>    cruise all over the web just to find out where to copy the linux flash
>    plugin etc in order to find out it doesn't work anyway.
> 

there's a howto available at 
http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?t=157 that you might find 
helpful...

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