how to enable linux flash player in firefox

[Andrew Gould]

> From: Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:44:41 AM
> Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
> 
> Andreas Davour writes:
> 
> >  Anyway. Can we hope that patch is finding it's way into the main
> >  branch with haste?
> 
>     As I understand it:
>     1) This patch is the "tip of the iceberg" for a much larger
> change,  
>     2) That change will not debut globally until 7.0.
>     3) Unfortunately, a critical piece of the enabling
> infrastructure (www/linuxpluginwrapper) is broken by this and no one
> has stepped forward to fix it.
> 
>                     Robert Huff
> _______________________________________________

I installed gnash, the port related to effort to create an open source 
flash player, including a plugin.  Firefox recognizes it as a plugin; but 
I still get the "missing plugin" message on many flash web pages.

Has anyone else here tried gnash?  If so, what has your experience been?

Thanks,

Andrew