Firefox and Flash ...

[RW]

On Monday 19 September 2005 20:57, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot
> for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4.
>
> I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing lists,
> etc, but still when there is a page with Flash, poor Firefox chokes and
> dies.
>
> One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that
> if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again and
> then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even
> flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird.
>
> What gives?

do you have linux-flashplugin and linuxpluginwrapper?

have you configured /etc/libmap.conf as specified when the  
 linuxpluginwrapper installs

BTW I don't have plugger installed - I don't think it's needed.