[kde-freebsd] Is there a port to support Macromedia Flash

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:33:54 Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 02:19:33 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 December 2009 17:20:31 Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 29 December 2009 10:04:23 am you wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 29 December 2009 11:11:51 Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > > > Using Konqueror, I'm trying to Browse the Ad at
> > > > > http://walgreens.shoplocal.com/walgreens/default.aspx?action=entry&
> > > > > pr
> > > > >
> > > > >et ai
> > > > >
> > > > >le rid=-99389&siteid=434&storeid=2429488
> > > > >
> > > > > It complains that I need macromedia flash.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there a port that provides flash support to Konqueror or is
> > > > > there one for Firefox?
> > > > 
> > > > You need Linux emulation for the Flash plugin to work. Check the
> > > > Handbook
> > > > 
> > > >  at
> > > >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-
> > > >  browsers.html
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the tip.
> > > I got it pretty much working with Konqueror, though there are some
> > > buttons on the screen for next and previous page and they have no text,
> > > they're just blue. And some other widgets seem to have empty bubble
> > > text (tool tips).
> > 
> > Does it work right on Firefox and other browsers? To be honest, I've
> > never been able to get it working 100% either.
> 
> It took a little time, because I wanted to update my ports to give
> Konqueror every chance.  So eventually, I installed Firefox 3.5.6.  It
> suffers the same anomaly, no text on the Back, Next, and other buttons.  I
> believe these buttons are flash widgets, so the real problem is in our
> flash support, not actually the browsers.

You could ask the appropriate mailing list about this - freebsd-current, 
stable or emulation, maybe.