SOLVED - Firefox + video.google.com (was Re: firefox with flash and java!)

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Mon Jul 17 13:45:50 UTC 2006


On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:01:53 +1000
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>
> To: "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: firefox with flash and java!
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:01:53 +1000
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:33:33 +0000
> "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello Beto,
> >   Thank you again, for the quick replay, the last step has been done as 
> > root, but the error presented.
> >   after searching freebsd list i found the follow to command insted.
> > 
> > >cd /usr/src   patch < rtld_dlsym_hack.diff  cd libexec/rtld-elf/  make 
> > >clean    make obj    make depend   make && make install
> > 
> > and after reboot it was perfect. 
> 
> ha! yes, probably you had to do this to refresh the library if it was already
> in memory (init 1, enter, ctrl-d would have been faster though)
> 
> > 
> > I'v tested few sites and flash is working great, one of the sites, if you 
> > click on
> > the flash ads that they have, it will open externel popup flash window for 
> > you
> > to run a flash video clip on it, this one didnot work,
> > I think it needs external flash player to run such thing is it correct?
> > do you recommend any?
> 
> dont click on the ads? ;) not sure - i never actually had the need for
> that.... an 'external popup flash window' would be, in most cases, a browser
> window , so you should be covered here. Maybe it's a video.google flash? (or
> something using the *same* tech so it also fails? I've found a few that
> die... but the ones @ flash.com all worked fine.

For the archives: replacing www/firefox for www/linux-firefox package solved the
video.google.com problem :) No idea why, it just works.

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