Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post.

[Jona Joachim]

Christopher Hobbs wrote:
> OK, let me preface this by saying flash 7 was marked broken for a reason
> (a very good one at that).  I'm probably going to be stepping on some
> toes here and I'd like to apologize in advance.  I've managed to install
> the broken port by changing a couple of files and using macromedia's own
> package.  It was a no-brainer.
> 
> I don't recommend doing this by any means.  I've carried out this
> installation for two reasons, one was for development on an internal
> machine that never touches the net.  Second because of the sheer volume
> of people asking about how to do this, I was curious to see if it could
> be done.
> 
> I've detailed the process here:  http://altbit.org/?p=207

To get the distinfo file, just run 'make makesum', it's a lot easier.

Commenting out 'RESTRICTED' is not required.

> Let me say again, that this is a VERY bad idea.

If it's a bad idea then why do you tell people how to do it?
You could perhaps just send in a PR with your changes and the maintainer
and the committers will take a look at it.

--jona