Ongoing problems w/ flash for Opera/FF31 ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/12/14 05:02, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>
> On 11/09/2014 16:09, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> On 09/11/14 08:45, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/09/2014 14:20, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sooooooooo tacky to self-reply, but I persist .... It looks to me 
>>>> like this port is locked-up *fried* .... it depends on another f10 
>>>> package which is apparently broken, & probably won't be fixed, 
>>>> since f10 support ended about 6 years ago .... Am I reading this 
>>>> correctly ? If so, are there any plans to try to work around this 
>>>> issue w/ this port ? I have a newer curl installed, many versions 
>>>> later than the F10 version, why can't the port use my newer 
>>>> installed version ? FF & Opera both need this plugin to render 
>>>> flash correctly (& yes, I acknowledge that flash *sux*), I sure 
>>>> wish this would get fixed :-) ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please see this site https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports and follow 
>>> the instructions there for either linux-f10 or linux-c6 base which 
>>> also includes the flash plugin setup instructions.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your prompt & precise response. It puts me in a bit of a 
>> bind, since I have never used github :-/ .... I'm on FBSD 9.3, so no 
>> linux-c6 (apparently) available. My distinfo in my 
>> linux-f10-flashplugin ports directory already shows the same info on 
>> the webpage, i.e. I seem to be already using the software referenced 
>> above, non ? Please advise & thanks for any guidance you can provide 
>> :-) ....
>>
>>
>
> You just install git and clone the repo and then follow the commands 
> in the README.
>
> However, I would recommend using youtube-dl and/or mpv. You can stream 
> the videos from youtube with either program or you can download the 
> file and watch with vlc, for example. That is what I do. Flash player 
> is awful software.
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I quite agree on flash, however, several sites useful to me use it. Some 
of these are U.S. Gov't sites (NOAA, NWS), which I suspect aren't likely 
to change on a whim, especially my whim :-) .... Thus, I would like to 
get flash working if possible. I am already using the version of the 
flash plugin referenced above, & it is a nogo for me. I was mostly just 
checking on the status of that port, seeing if it was still active, etc. 
Latest version posted in late August, so it seems alive. It might be 
being maintained only for newer FBSD (10 or 11) .... if so, it would be 
nice to know that ....


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