Outdated instructions in the Handbook for installing Flash?

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:34:46PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> I tried following the instructions for installing Flash from
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> and found they appear to be outdated.  The firefox plugins directory
> for 3.6 appears to be /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins doesn't exist. Also, I had to run
> nspluginwrapper -v -i
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/libflashplayer.so to install it, since
> -a didn't seem to look in the global plugins directory. I guess
> avoiding the symlink step and just using the original file would work
> too.

Actually /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins is still used for firefox
plugins:

% ls -al /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
total 48
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel    512 19 fév 17:47 .
drwxr-xr-x  70 root  wheel  43008 25 fév 09:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 19 fév 17:20 gecko-mediaplayer
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     60 19 fév 17:47 libflashplayer.so ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel    512 19 fév 17:20 symlinks

as you can see gecko-mediaplayer installs its directory there.

/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins is not created by Firefox installation,
so if you just installed Firefox and you try to install Flash, you'll
have to create that directory.
So I'd prefer to add a note on the need of (the creation) this directory
instead of changing/removing the whole section.

-- 
Marc