Flash plugin

Rahul Siddharthan rsidd at online.fr
Mon Nov 22 20:49:37 PST 2004


Quoting Justin Hopper <jhopper at bsdhosting.net>:
> I was hopeful for using the Flash plugin with FireFox in FreeBSD when I
> noticed that there was a port for it.  However, the plugin seems to be
> pretty dated, though I can't tell exactly what version of the player it
> is.

I think you're looking at the GPL flash port, which is an unofficial clone,
not Macromedia's own plugin.

Take a look at the linuxpluginwrapper port.  It allows you to use several
binary linux plugins with native FreeBSD browsers, but requires a bit
of manual setup.

Rahul


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