On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> > flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to
> > pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> > linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
> > still YouTube won't work.
> >
> > Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use? Or is there another
> > way of getting both audio+video?
> >
> > gary
> >
>
> Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it.
Okay; i wasn't clear on that... .
>
> graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube.
Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web;
things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I
pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers?
>
> Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the
> plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You
> will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one
> for the plugins to work.
Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla
plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are
data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree.
gary
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