Flash player for either Konqueror or Firefox?

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:07:38PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Yeah, I've tried that and updated to Firefox 2 as well; if I try to have the 
> flashplayer (there isn't a FreeBSD one, I'm attempting to use the Linux one) 
> load it segfaults Firefox immediately.
> 
> Opera doesn't work either.
]
Again, flash 7 or flash 9?  As I said, at this point, flash 9 is quite
problematic.


> 
> I think I'm stuck here; this is something that FreeBSD needs to get resolved if 
> its going to be a serious contender in the desktop arena.  I've got folks that 
> would love to run this (and some Java apps) but its just not getting it 
> done.......

I'm able to run both java and flash with firefox.  (Although I can't get
linux-java working with linux-opera at this point.)

Others have had more luck with linux-firefox, linux-flash and
linux-java.  It's true that these are harder to get working in FreeBSD
than they are in Linux, and are actually a bit behind, but most folks
manage to get one combo (or combination of combos) working in some way.  

For me, native firefox works with java, linux-flash 7, acroread, and the
mplayer plugin.  The linux-opera port works with acroread and flash.  

For native firefox, I installed it, linux-flash 7, and then
nspluginwrapper.  (I had acroread installed somewhere along the line.)
I then just ran nspluginwrapper -a -v -i and it worked without problem
(for me.)

On the other hand, I've run into lots of posts on bsdforums where people
have your problems, some eventually solved, others apparently not.  I
realize that's not much help, but at least you know you're not alone.
:)


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