Make sure you install nspluginwrapper, then run the following command to add Flash to your browser plugins: Fortunately, as of FreeBSD 7.1 you no longer have to worry about that: Clicking 'Install Missing Plugins' in Firefox gives you an error message that no suitable plugin was found. You've probably seen an ugly white box with a green puzzle-piece and a message telling you additional plugins must be installed in order to view the media on the page when you visit certain websites. Flashįlash is pretty common on the Internet, and some websites are not even navigable without Flash. (RealPlayer is not mentioned further on this page because I was unable to successfully play a. I tested this, and nspluginwrapper automatically detected and installed the Flash, Acrobat Reader, and RealPlayer plugins for use with Firefox. Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc.) on your system, you can detect and install them for Firefox (and other native browsers) by typing the following command: Once you've installed some Linux browser plugins (i.e. (/usr/ports/(Most Linux browser plugins are Netscape plugins).īefore you can install any Linux browser plugins, you'll need to enable Linux Binary Compatibility Mode on your system. In order to use these browser plugins with the FreeBSD-native version of Firefox (highly recommended due to the ugly font rendering on the linux-firefox version), we have to install an amazing little app: nspluginwrapper: There are a number of commercial apps/browser plugins available for Linux. It will also show up the same way in your plugins. The same drill as before, you'll have to restart firefox to reap the benefits. Now we can continue to install the plugin.

The mplayer plugin will allows us to play embedded video in firefox. Ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/Īfterwards open up firefox (if it was open you'll probably have to restart it) and you can type about:plugins in the address bar and you can verify that it was installed correctly. Now make a link for firefox so it can know to use the java plugin we just installed.

Firefox realplayer video downloader