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

2015-10-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:43:12PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 30 October 2015 at 16:59, Swift Griggs wrote: > > > This "new" internet smells less like a lab or an engineering shop and > > rather a lot more like a corporate suburban strip mall. Fortunately, there > > is enough bandwidth t

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

2015-10-30 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 30 October 2015 at 16:59, Swift Griggs wrote: > This "new" internet smells less like a lab or an engineering shop and > rather a lot more like a corporate suburban strip mall. Fortunately, there > is enough bandwidth to spare these days that Luddite curmudgeons like me can > still exist in t

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

2015-10-30 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 30 October 2015 at 16:59, Swift Griggs wrote: > This "new" internet smells less like a lab or an engineering shop and > rather a lot more like a corporate suburban strip mall. Fortunately, there > is enough bandwidth to spare these days that Luddite curmudgeons like me can > still exist in th

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

2015-10-30 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, J. Lewis Muir wrote: More like it's a real shame that the people that write the browsers can't write secure code. Well good point. That too. It's all a matter of perspective, I suppose. Related to this, it's a real shame that the Web specs are so complicated that it

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

2015-10-30 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Onno van der Linden wrote: > 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) Thanks a lot. Installing avahi, dbus and pulseaudio was going to be taxing. I wish your

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

2015-10-30 Thread J. Lewis Muir
On 10/29/15 2:03 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > It's a real shame that browsers have to be updated constantly now due > to the constant threat of some jerk using the browser as an attack > surface. Hi, Swift. More like it's a real shame that the people that write the browsers can't write secure code.

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

2015-10-29 Thread Roy Bixler
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Onno van der Linden wrote: > 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

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

2015-10-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Roy Bixler wrote: 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. Indeed. Pulseaudio is unbelievable. It's got a relatively h

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

2015-10-29 Thread Onno van der Linden
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

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

2015-10-29 Thread Roy Bixler
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 t

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

2015-10-26 Thread Mayuresh
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/

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

2015-10-26 Thread Roy Bixler
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 06:40:47PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 04:17:16PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > With libflashsuppot (for OSS), playing flash on NetBSD/amd64 is > > much more stable than with previous nspluginwrapper-1.2.2 with > > suse32 compat packages and COMPAT_LIN

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

2015-10-26 Thread Mayuresh
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 04:17:16PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > With libflashsuppot (for OSS), playing flash on NetBSD/amd64 is > much more stable than with previous nspluginwrapper-1.2.2 with > suse32 compat packages and COMPAT_LINUX32 emulations. On NetBSD 7.0 i386 with latest firefox and adobe