Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty
established...
Mike Meyer
mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df at mired.org
Tue Jun 24 22:18:29 UTC 2008
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:42 -0400
Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com> wrote:
> Julian Stacey wrote:
> > "Mark Carlson" wrote:
> >> On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <john at kozubik.com> wrote:
> > ..... Elided ...
> >>> [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
> >>> Compat anyway...
> >> I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so
> >
> > Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / script URL please ?
>
> I'd like to chime in here and say there is nothing special to get this
> configuration to work. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install it
> via Wine, then download the Windows version of Flash for Firefox and install
> that with Wine. Once you do that, you have Flash in Firefox using Wine. Like
> has been said, Wine is far from perfect, but this works great until a native
> Flash can be made for FreeBSD.
Not only that, but you've restricted Flash's access to your Wine
environment. Give that it - by design - loads and executes code from
unknown and hence untrustworthy individuals, this is a good thing in
and of itself.
<mike
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