Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-02-04 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/18/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I screw up my firefox big time, I see flash player plugins files everywhere. It's actually a cutting-edge technology called chaotic symlinking :-) Don't bother your eyes with the internals, /usr/local/lib/npapi is supposed to look

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around: cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins ln -s

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/17/07, Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? . I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around:

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/16/07, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or, look in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/ and make sure the plugin or a symlink exists. 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1 I have these files in $ pwd /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins $ ls -lrt total

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
I need to try the Warren's method to see if that is going to help me, first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to 6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world. The really easy way out is to install the linux-firefox port. If you do this, flash should just work.

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:21:02 AM Subject: Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1 I need to try the Warren's

Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1 I have these files in $ pwd /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins $ ls -lrt total 2132 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2158864 Oct 27 16:42 libflashplayer.so -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42 flashplayer.xpt drwxr-xr-x 2 500 100512 Dec 4 19:09