Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:25, Pete Slagle wrote: > Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap > Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs > Firefox, multimedia, ... Has this changed? I have an Ubuntu live cd and wasn't very inpressed. It's Firefox has no flash support and no video plugin. I've never had any serious problems with FreebSD and Multimedia in general - quite the opposite actually. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On 12/09/06, Pete Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uninstall firefox > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > this step) > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" > > the ones I found most helpful where: > linux-firefox > linux-flashplugin7 > linuxpluginwrapper > > you might also want to look at > linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs Firefox, multimedia, cutting edge video drivers, wi-fi, and a bunch of apps that are troublesome to configure on FreeBSD. You can then install VMware Server (also painless) and run a local FreeBSD VM for quick desktop access when you need the Real Thing. It's easy to SSH and VNC back and forth and open X windows between the two systems and have the best of both worlds. Don't get me wrong; I far prefer working in FreeBSD to any other system, and spend most of my time there. But life is just easier when you have more tools close to your work area. It's simple to set up, and has been rock solid for me. Well, I'm sorry you've all been beavering away offering helpful suggestions, because following rance's first suggestion i installed linux-firefox instead. Coincidentally, Pete - this FreeBSD install is already on a VMware image! The bare hardware is running SuSE. I had intended to run FreeBSD on the bare hardware, but it doesn't recognise either of the two wireless NICs (one was bought for use with Linux/BSD, the other is a Broadcom, argh!). As an aside, before finding that SuSE works with the PC card wifi NIC, I used FreeBSD on a VMware image in XP (thank God those days are over). It (FreeBSD) runs faster in VMware (which I understand is a customised Linux), running on SuSE Linux than XP did on the bare hardware. Go figure. In fact I just can't believe how fast it is - it used to crawl running Enlightenment stuck on top of XP, now it flies running KDE. Thanks for your suggestions, all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uninstall firefox > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > this step) > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" > > the ones I found most helpful where: > linux-firefox > linux-flashplugin7 > linuxpluginwrapper > > you might also want to look at > linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs Firefox, multimedia, cutting edge video drivers, wi-fi, and a bunch of apps that are troublesome to configure on FreeBSD. You can then install VMware Server (also painless) and run a local FreeBSD VM for quick desktop access when you need the Real Thing. It's easy to SSH and VNC back and forth and open X windows between the two systems and have the best of both worlds. Don't get me wrong; I far prefer working in FreeBSD to any other system, and spend most of my time there. But life is just easier when you have more tools close to your work area. It's simple to set up, and has been rock solid for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and > themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're > not "supported in Unknown". > > Any ideas on how to fix this, please? > > TIA > What's your user agent showing?: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/UserAgent.html -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
Quoting Xiao-Yong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Quoting Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not "supported in Unknown". Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin I solved this problem on my freebsd 6.1-STABLE box by deinstalling all graphical web tools (Opera, Firefox, etc) enabling linux binary compatibility, and then installing the linux versions of all those graphical www tools I had just installed. then the linux-plugins I'm very pleased with the results, as many plugings dont have a BSD version. Can you explain it in detail? I can't find detailed instructions in the Handbook. What about the flash plugin, the java plugin, the realplayer, the openoffice plugin, or even the mplayerplug-in? Thank you, Xiao-Yong -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- Ok, assuming your www browser of choice is firefox (similarly for Opera) uninstall firefox then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on this step) Now cd into /usr/ports/www and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" the ones I found most helpful where: linux-firefox linux-flashplugin7 linuxpluginwrapper you might also want to look at linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files hope that helps. Rance make sure your options are what you want, and that should fix you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
Quoting Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not "supported in Unknown". Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I solved this problem on my freebsd 6.1-STABLE box by deinstalling all graphical web tools (Opera, Firefox, etc) enabling linux binary compatibility, and then installing the linux versions of all those graphical www tools I had just installed. then the linux-plugins I'm very pleased with the results, as many plugings dont have a BSD version. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On 9/11/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not "supported in Unknown". What theme/extension are you trying to install? Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Extensions and Themes in Firefox
Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not "supported in Unknown". Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
