flashplugin-mozilla is marked as broken...?

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Rob wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> How am I ever be able to convince my labmembers that FreeBSD is so much
> better than M$-Window$, if they get stuck on FreeBSD already after two
> minutes by simply browsing with Mozilla to their favorite webpage?
>

This bug is biting some Linuxes as well. 

Bug 24427 - Get this when visiting the site: "Gtk-WARNING **:
invalid cast from `GtkSuperWin' to `GtkWidget'" 
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224427>

Until such time as it's fixed, is Opera the best we
can do?  I guess, but I'm with you ... let's get it fixed...
I am growing quite attached to this dinosaur....

> Moreover: how do I get rid of that annoying dialog "Default Plugin",
> which asks me to "Click OK to download Plugin." when an unknown plugin is
> encountered? This is annoying, because when I click "OK", I get a webpage
> telling me that there's no such plugin for my OS.
> I want to get rid of this, once and for all. Is that possible?
>

Dunno on that one.  Likely there's a knob somewhere,
though... Preferences?  Hmm, a quick look doesn't help
from here, does it.... :-(

> Thanks,
> Rob.


FWIW,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.