Re: Flash plugin status

From: Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:44:21 -0700
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:24:07 -0700
> From: Rudy <crapsh_at_MonkeyBrains.NET>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> 
> About a month ago, Flash 7 was marked unsafe, and Flash 9 doesn't work 
> on many sites.
> 
>   [1] Anyone have any tricks to get Flash 9 working in 7.x?
>   [2] Any update on getting the freebsd foundation to take
>       on Flash (ala Java)?
>   [3] Anyone work at Adobe (nee Macromedia) that can get a
>       build for FreeBSD published?

For the record, after the update to linux-flashplugin7 3 days ago, it is
no longer marked unsafe and I have had no problems updating. It now
will, by default, build with support for nspluginwrapper.

I did the update and ran:
nspluginwrapper -i -v /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so \
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

(I don't like the Acrobat plugin, so I don't install that one.)

Note that nspluginwrapper must be run by each user before starting
firefox. 

I have no joy to spread in Flash 9. Happily, most of the sites I use
that are Flash-based are still working with Flash 7.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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