Comments on: Flash Plugin on FreeBSD

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:31:31 +0000

It works on 6.0 & 6.2f

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:04:27 +0000

It works on 6.0 & 6.2

By: eti

eti — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:36:58 +0000

I’ve just installed version 7.0r69 and works out of the box. Still waiting for updates on flash 9.

By: Daniel S

Daniel S — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:04 +0000

Thanks very much for your tutorial! It works great on my FreeBSD 6.1 install and using Firefox 2.0

By: eti

eti — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:12:55 +0000

Flash plugin on FreeBSD conclusion

I’ve managed to get the linux flash plugin 9 beta to work with linux-firefox. It plays anything including youtube movies with sound. It’s not rock stable as it crashed a few times … but only on youtube.

As for the native version of firefox i decided to stick with flash 7 because the flash 9 plugin even if recognized keeps crashing on any flash object without useful debugging information. It seems to crash when initializing the plugin and the crash always occurs in the same place but i have no more ideas on what to try. I’ve managed to get it recognized by the native firefox by extending linuxpluginwrapper and adding a flash9.so object that has all the flash7.so symbols and adding stdout,stderr,stdin and get_current_dir_name symbols. The flash9 plugin does not need the rtld patch.

I have nothing against linux-firefox and the linux emulation layer, but at least for me it does not feel right to run a linux binary when i can run a native one and thinking that i don’t need flash that much I’ll keep the linux-firefox around but use the native browser for daily browsing.

By: eti

eti — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:41:32 +0000

Yep… I’m watching an youtube movie WITH sound on FreeBSD using linux emulation layer, linux-firefox and linux flashplugin 9 beta and libflashsupport ( for OSS sound ). It’s not very stable ( I’m experiencing crashes on youtube ) and being linux binaries i don’t feel like installing debugging tools for them, but anyway it’s a start. To bad it’s with the linux emulation. I’ll keep trying to make the plugin work with the native firefox.

By: eti

eti — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:13:54 +0000

On linux-firefox the plugin worked from the first shot but without sound. I was able so play an youtube movie but without sound.

By: eti

eti — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:44:18 +0000

Flash 9 beta for linux is out.

Now the challenge is to make it work on freebsd. I’ve manage to have native firefox load the plugin but it crashes on any flash object. The crash seems to happen in libflashplugin.so with is the binary file from adobe and does not contain debug information. I’ve tried it with libpthread and also with libthr but nothing changed.

I’ll try installing the linux-firefox to see if the plugin works, but i don’t feel very comfortable installing the hole linux emulation layer.

PS: Its strange that i go to all this trouble just to have the flash plugin in freebsd’s native firefox and also use the noscript extension to block flash. In the end i guess it’s just the challenge that drives me.

By: eti

eti — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:43:19 +0000

The sound seems to be woking also on regular swf files but still does not work on flv files like the ones from youtube.com

By: eti

eti — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:51:37 +0000

Hi Rixk

The pugins directory was /usr/X11R6/lib until a recent update ( about 1 week ago ) when it was moved to /usr/local/lib ( see recent /usr/ports/UPDATING )

I have never seen your error so there is not much i can say about it. I’ve seen older firefox crash with older linux plugin versions … so if it’s an option try updating to more recent src / ports .