flash and firefox revisited

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Although somewhat off-topic for CURRENT, when we had a discussion about
this last week, and I mentioned that flash worked well for me with
linux-firefox, a few people asked how I did it.  At the time, I had set
it up awhile back, and didn't really remember the details. 

At any rate, set up a new machine this week, so this is how I got flash
working with linux-firefox. 

Rather than using the port, I downloaded the firefox for Linux tarball
from mozilla at

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/

I untarred it in my $HOME directory where it created a directory called,
oddly enough, firefox.  In the firefox directory is a shell executable
called--yup, you guessed it, firefox.  

So, I started it from command line, with firefox/firefox and went to a
site that needed flash--I got the message that flash needed to be
installed, would I like firefox to install it for me, I clicked yes.  It
then simply downloaded and installed flash7 putting it in
$HOME/firefox/plugins.

After that, it Just Works(TM)

I have linux_base-8 installed.  

Hope this is of use to someone.  It's one of those things I use
relatively rarely, so it isn't worth it (to me) to take the time to try
to figure out how to get the port's version to work, try testing it with
various linux elements missing, etc.     


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