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| Title: nspluginwrapper-0.9.96.1.uci Description: Compatibility layer for Netscape compatible plugins. Version: 0.9.96.1 Author: Gwenole Beauchesne Original-site: http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/nspluginwrapper Copying-policy: GPL -----==[ Color = green Filesize: 73KB ]==----- Extension by: Jason W Comments: Nspluginwrapper enables the use of 32 bit plugins on 64 bit and BSD systems. It's use on DSL is basically insurance to keep Firefox from crashing when using the Flash 9 plugin. With nspluginwrapper in use, when the flash plugin crashes (as it sometimes will) there is simply a grey area of screen where the flash content was. Simply refreshing the browser restarts the flash plugin. Firefox remains unaffected, which is of value when in the middle of something important. If you have the flash plugin downloaded to /mnt/hda2/flash, then: ---- $ nspluginwrapper -i /mnt/hda2/flash/libflashplayer.so ---- That will install the wrapper to /home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so . You probably don't want to leave it there since that will crash the gtk1 Firefox that comes with DSL. Moving that wrapper file to the directory where you have your gtk2 Firefox installed makes more sense. Move the file /home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to /mnt/hda2/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so if that is where you installed Firefox. That way only your gtk2 Firefox is using flash. One word of warning: be careful with laptops as a crash of flash with nspluginwrapper can leave your cpu pegged at 100% if you leave it unattended. In that case killing a process may be necessary. Change-log: Current: 2008/06/08 - First submission |