Subject: Re: Flash plugin for NetBSD Firefox testers wanted
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/22/2007 20:13:30
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:57:50 +0000 (GMT)
David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Steve Woodford wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:28:21 David Brownlee wrote:
> >> (Thanks to Geert Hendrickx and Shigeki UNO for pointing me at
> >>   Gwenole Beauchesne's quite excellent nspluginwrapper)
> >>
> >> NetBSD/i386 users can now use the latest Linux flash plugin
> >> including sound in their native Firefox and similar browsers.
> >
> > Just tried it with Konqueror (from kde-3.5.6) on -current. It works,
> > including sound, but has a tendency to bomb out at random, dropping
> > a npviewer.bin.core when doing so.
> >
> > I've no idea how to go about debugging this.
> 
>  	I've had two similar reports of people running 4.99.15, in
>  	one case he tried a linux firefox+plugin and had the same
>  	issue (again under NetBSD), so it sounds like an issue in
>  	current. I noticed Andy made some more fixes recently, are
>  	you on 4.99.16 by any chance?
> 
I have some core dumps from 4.99.13.  (Actually, I thought I had
updated my kernel past that.)

The other problem I've experienced is that prefbar -- one of my
favorite extensions -- doesn't recognize this as flash, so I can't
selectively disable it.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb