mplayer-plugin and Firefox 3.5

Jacob Myers jacob at whotookspaz.org
Wed Oct 14 11:46:28 UTC 2009


Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> Yes.  Add this to /etc/make.conf:
> 
> WITH_GECKO=     libxul
> 
> and then recompile mplayer-plugin and probably any other plugins you
> have installed.  You might need to recompile Firefox too.
> 
> This setting is destined to become the default according to the recently
> published progress report from the Gecko Project team 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.html), but
> I can confirm that it has been working for me for several months.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew
> 

Thanks :D. This seemed to have worked perfectly, minus a few minor
stability problems (wav loops seem to make the browser get stuck). I'm
recompiling firefox to see if this fixes that (if not, well, I can
definitely live without YTMND :p).

-- Jacob

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