Update about Flash on FreeBSD with gnash

Back in May, I wrote a post about Flash on FreeBSD using gnash.

Now that gnash-0.8.1 is in the ports tree, I have to say that the greasemonkey+mplayer hack is no longer needed to watch YouTube videos.

Everything works great using gnash alone.

Philip Paeps wrote:
We seem to have different values of “working great”. YouTube works, indeed (though it already worked using a Python script and mplayer) but other random sites using Flash nastiness make Xorg fall over with a bus error.

I think my earlier statement “Flash sucks!” still holds. I’ll stick to www/dummyflash It makes the web a much calmer place too!
Posted 28 Sep 2007 at 11:53 pm ¶
marc wrote:
Could you post your options file, I have been playing with this and it is not quite working
Posted 30 Sep 2007 at 10:28 pm ¶
AMDmi3 wrote:
If you use Firefox, you should try AdBlock extension - it allows you to play only desired flash clips
Posted 01 Oct 2007 at 3:50 pm ¶

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