On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:31, Robin Laing wrote: > Ski Dawg wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:34 +0100, M A Young wrote: > > > > > > Just a follow up to this. I just read an interview with the lead > > engineer for Adobe's Flash Player team. He says the Flash 9 player for > > Linux is expected for early 2007. > > > > Read the interview at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=96 (originally > > linked from /. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/08/30/0531253.shtml ) > > > > You can read his blog, called Penguin SWF, at > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf > > > > He did say that they are currently working on x86 based Flash Player. If > > you want something else (alternative OS, like BSD or 64 bit or PPC) to > > use the Wish Form at http://www.adobe.com/go/wish rather than posting in > > the Penguin SWF blog. > > -- > > Doug > > There is also a work around that I came across that will work with some > sites that request Flash 9. > > From > > http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/flash-9-for-xubuntu/ > > 1) Make a back-up of the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat: > > cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat.bak > > 2) Edit that file: > > nano ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat > > 3) Replace the lines that say > > Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63:$ > > to > > Shockwave Flash 9.0 r63:$ > > -- > Robin Laing Hi Robin. That's interesting. I don't access sites that use Flash much, but have you got a link to a site that needs Flash 9, so that I can try the workaround. Not a crude site please. Nigel.
