flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

Tino Engel elrap at web.de
Sat Nov 10 16:54:17 PST 2007


Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> John wrote:
>   
>> I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system.  Making good
>> progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do
>> flash.  Definite showstopper, for me.  Ok, then I tried to use the
>> linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work.
>>
>> It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody
>> installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox.
>>
>> So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I
>> would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox?
>>
>> Is that easier?  More likely to work?
>>     
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html
>
> That will work just fine using flash7.  When you need flash9, thats a
> different story.
>
> works on 6.2, 6.3, 7.0-current, 7.0-betaX, and 8.0-current.
>
>
>   
Flash 9 alway causes segfault when displaying flash movie in my 
linux-firefox. So what am I doing wrong.


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