Firefox+Flash

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--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 14:57:28 -0700 White Hat 
<pigskin_referee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> FreeBSD 6.1
>
> I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try
> FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the
> major problems is the inability to get flash to work
> properly to display videos available on Google. I know
> that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it
> out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps
> persuade them to try FBSD?

Adobe have announced that Flash 8 and all previous versions have multiple 
critical vulnerabilities. Presumably Adobe have been sitting on these bugs 
for some time; a month or so after the release of Flash 9 is pretty 
convenient for them.

Since the highest version of the linux plugin is 7, there is currently no 
Adobe version that can be run safely on Linux, BSD or Solaris. I understand 
that Adobe have indicated that there will eventually be a Linux Flash 9, 
and hopefully it will work on FreeBSD.

There are open source versions, but they aren't much good in my experience, 
I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.