firefox flash plug in woes

[icantthinkofone]

Tim Clewlow wrote:
> --- KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with
>> flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous
>> technology in websites.  is there any progress on this?
>> i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop
>>
>>     
>
> Hi there, I have native firefox with flash 7 working fine on FreeBSD 6.2, with
> java and adobe reader. Note I always install via ports, and they are up to
> date.  Anyway, here is how, you can try it from packages, ie pkg_add -r xxxxx -
> hopefully that works too, but if it doesnt then installing from ports
> definately does.
>
> [ Note, I just copies/pasted this from my notes, there may be later versions of
> these packages you can also use - but IIRC I had some problems with them ]
>
> install www/firefox       
> install print/acroread7       
> install java/diablo-jdk15
> install www/linux-flashplugin7       
> kldload linux
> echo "none            /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs       rw      0      
> 0" >> /etc/fstab
> mount -a
> echo "linux_enable=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf                       
> nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
>
> Cheers, Tim.
>
> We are BSD ... resistance is futile.
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This is what I do and I run flash just fine, too.