Flash plugin ?

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sun Aug 17 16:45:03 UTC 2014


On 08/17/14 11:39, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:27:21 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> Word dat on old tech, it's a US-gov website (NOAA or subset), they might
>> still be using that 20 years from now. I have followed those directions
>> completely, AFAIK, I just can't find the actual flash plugin to load &
>> use ....
> That's strange, but I have to admit that I also had problems
> getting "Flash" work in Firefox once. That's why I tried Opera
> and it worked immediately. Could you, just for reference, try
> that browser according to the instructions in the Handbook?
> If it works, make Opera your "'Flash' browser" and let Firefox
> be your "normal browser" for fast, unpolluted and secure web
> access.
>
>
>

Already working in that direction ..... I got a few oddities when I did 
'pkg install  opera-12.16_2 opera-linuxplugins-12.16', 3 pkgs failed 
their POST-INSTALL .... unfortunately I have lost the output, did a 
'makewhatis -v' & washed it away ....

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