On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:31:51AM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: > Raimo Niskanen wrote: > >Perhaps the best, but not the only. Flash i all over the net. > >E.g to see the weather forecasts from the Swedish Meteorology > >and Hydrology Institute (SMHI), you need Flash 8. Just a few > >months ago you needed Internet Explorer as well, but they > >are aware and improving... > > > >But Flash 7 via Opera and Linux emulation in OpenBSD does not > >cut it, alas :-( > > You're right, the Opera Flash Plugin doesn't really cut it, but I have > discovered a somewhat useful workaround. > > By hitting 'Pause' on the Flash 9 movies that autostart, before they > have a chance to crash, (or just changing the setting on those that do > not autostart), I have been able to right-click and set the movie > quality to the lowest setting (default is highest quality), which > permits most movies to at least play. >
Well, at least I know that I'm not alone in needing to use flash to get real work done (not for games or other time-wasters). Which means that for any box from which I want to get real work done, I can't use OpenBSD. It would be great if it were possible to somehow wrap up fireforx + flash so that it was possible and safe to run as a normal user on OpenBSD. By which I don't mean to suggest that you need to be root to run it but instead that I know that in general its not wise to run any X app, especially a browser to the net, as root. Doug.
