Firefox+Flash works for sure

[John Nielsen]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote:
> At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed:
> > I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm.
> > Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the
> > plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin
> > in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it
> > to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so
> > file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again
> > and enjoy the world of flash
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> Hello Family,
>
> I'm running 6.1, installed "linux-opera" from ports in order to test
> the above, and the ports install seemed to go fine but I got this
> error when trying to start Opera, anyone seen this before?
>
> ##########################################
>
> [wiliweld at lifebook ~]$ /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera
>
> opera: Preference initialization failure. File not found or could
> not be opened (-7)
>
> ##########################################

Why are you trying to run it that way?  What happens if you just 
type "linux-opera" from an xterm? (/usr/local/bin/linux-opera on my machine).

JN