Flash

[Tim Kellers]

Jona Joachim wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200
> Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively,
>>> step by step? 
>>>       
>> The only native solution I know of is "gnash" but last time I tried
>> it it was very unstable and very slow.
>>     
>
> gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet.
> It features some great improvements. It can for example play YouTube
> videos without too many problems.
> I heard very promising things about gnash last week.
> gnash has already a lot of advantages compared to the 'real thing' from
> Adobe. For example it runs on many platforms where Adobe's Flash
> doesn't run. It will also perhaps soon hit the iPhone.
> Useless to say Adobe are not so happy about it ;)
>
> Best regards,
> Jona
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I built and installed gnash 0.8.1 this evening. The only additional 
dependency not installed by the 0.7.x version that I needed was agg 
(/usr/ports/graphics/agg).

Interestingly enough, while the new plugin choked Firefox 2.0.0.5 and 
Seamonkey 1.14 on pages that had embedded flash files, Konqueror 3.5.7
handled most embedded Flash that was < = 7.

I built (and ran) it on a GateWay laptop running 6.2-STABLE:

FreeBSD access 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Thu Jul 26 00:54:56 EDT 
2007     root at access.smsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCESS  i386

It still needs work, but it looks like it is headed in the right direction.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT