Re: Flash sites in Firefox

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> I set up a Dell for my young kids to play games at the PBS Kids site.  The 
> experience has been awful - loading takes forever, lots of stuff not working, 
> etc.  Is this due to me doing something wrong (please advise - this would be 
> a relief), peculiarities of Linux-compatibility in NetBSD (in which case I 
> may just wipe the box for Linux - annoying but not too painful), or the state 
> of Flash support on open OS's in general (in which case I'll probably have to 
> buy a new machine - more painful; running Win7 - much more painful)?  

Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from 
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ).  If it is important to you 
that Flash works well, you should either persuade Adobe to provide a NetBSD 
version, or you should switch to using one of the platforms on which Flash is 
supported.

Note that the Flash license is extremely restrictive; see a similar discussion 
archived here:

  
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%freebsd.org@localhost/msg234006.html

Probably the best suggestion was to set up a virtual machine via Xen or VMWare 
to run Win7 (or OpenSolaris / Linux if you prefer).

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck