Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

[Onno van der Linden <o.vd.linden%quicknet.nl@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:12:27PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:59:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:42:11AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:
> > > I had the same problem and found that starting up dbus and avahidaemon
> > > solved it.  With older versions of Firefox, this wasn't necessary.
> > > I'd be interested to see if there are other solutions to this, since
> > > I'd rather not run dbus/avahi.
> > 
> > Entirely agree. It's scary to do so much for a web browser. Can someone
> > confirm this hypothesis?
> > 
> > If true, shouldn't it be a captured as a dependency?
> 
> I notice that those are dependencies, but only indirectly.  The
> problem direct dependency is pulseaudio, which has dbus and avahi as
> its dependencies.  I wonder if it's possible to build a recent Firefox
> using some other audio backend.  It seems worthwhile, since pulseaudio
> is a real CPU hog and it might also eliminate the need for dbus/avahi.


Yes, it's possible to use the oss backend of firefox.
See pkg/50306 (http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=50306)
for the stuff I've been using. Depending on the firefox version
you might wanna change/add some of the media.* defaults via
about:config.

Onno