How to get Flash to work in Firefox/Konqueror

Thomas Schlesinger schlesinger at netcologne.de
Tue Aug 22 00:48:10 PDT 2006


Am Dienstag, 22. August 2006 08:59 schrieb Nigel Weeks:
> How come linux binaries are required? Are these plugins binary-only
> releases?
>
> It's a shame Firefox doesn't adopt one of the OS flash players, and roll it
> into their code for platforms that don't have native plugins...
>

Which other feasible flash players besides Adobe's are available? Gnash seems 
to be not production-ready. I think, using some Linux apps via emulation is 
the price of using a "niche desktop OS".

I would really like to see OpenGL hardware acceleration for DFly (and other 
OSS systems), because I think, the "free" Desktops will use it in future 
extensively (see XGL, AIGLX, Xorg 7.1 as a foretaste) and it could  prevent 
the wider use of DFly on desktops in future. But OSS drivers for graphic 
cards seems to be hopeless, at least in the near future :-(

Thomas





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