Flash support in Mozilla
From NetBSD Wiki
Adobe does not provide a native NetBSD flash player. For users wishing to view flash on NetBSD there are a number of options:
i386 and (theoretically) amd64 users
- Install multimedia/ns-flash 9.0.31nb1 or later from pkgsrc. amd64 users will need to enable the 'nspluginwrapper' option explicitly. nspluginwrapper is a wrapper that allows netscape plugins (including linux binaries) to run in a separate process
- Run a linux Firefox binary and use the linux flash plugin
- Port the linuxpluginwrapper from FreeBSD, which would allow x86 users to use the linux flash plugin in a native Firefox. linuxpluginwrapper is an ugly hack, but the result would be faster than nspluginwrapper. More notes at http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2006/04/26/0006.html
Problem in NetBSD-4.0 i386
- Flash plugin release 9 isn't working in Firefox and Opera, use release 7 instead.
- You can check your plugin version this way :
$> strings libflashplayer.so | grep "Flash "
- Download Flash 7 from :
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266
- In the Linux part of the package you can find the release 7 of libflashplayer.so, put it in your .mozilla/plugins/. (Before, copy the old libflashplayer.so somewere else if you feel like)
All platforms
- Use gnash - a free reimplementation of flash. pkgsrc/multimedia/gnash has a 'klash' option to automatically build a gnash plugin for KDE, and someone could easily implement a similar option to build a plugin for firefox. The gnash plugin is usable for some basic flash, but will not handle most modern flash files
