Flash plugin on 7.0, what are my options?

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 06:19:40 PST 2008


On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:30:08AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Marcus Alves Grando <mnag at FreeBSD.org> (from Mon, 14 Jan 2008 
> 00:06:09 -0200):
> 
>> Baldur Gislason wrote:
>>> I recently installed 7.0-RC1 and I really want to get flash
>>> working in some web browser.
>>> What is a known working combination of browser+flash plugin?
>>> I noted that linuxpluginwrapper doesn't compile under FreeBSD 7.0
>> 
>> I don't know about linuxpluginwrapper, but
>> www/nspluginwrapper+www/linux-flashplugin7+www/firefox work's fine on
>> mostly cases.
> 
> If you run the 32bit version of FreeBSD. For 64bit I would be surprised if 
> it works (flashplugin is 32bit, and the native firefox would be 64bit, this 
> doesn't work together, you could try with linux-firefox in this case, as it 
> is 32bit too).

Just for the record, linux-flashplugin7 + nspluginwrapper run just fine
on -CURRENT/amd64 with compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 and linux_base-f7.
With native FF, of course :-)

> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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WBR,
Yuri


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