Re: [Gnash-dev] firefox plugin feature request

[Patrick Alken]

Hi, I've filed a bug report as you requested:

 gnash plugin on lucid Edit

    lucid-backports
    Bugs
    Bug #1041630

Thanks for your help!

Patrick

On 08/23/2012 09:16 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 08/22/2012 11:56 AM, Patrick Alken wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >    I would like to try out the latest gnash firefox plugin, but there
> > does not seem to be anything pre-compiled available for download. I'm
> > using an older release of ubuntu which only ships with a very old
> > version of gnash (0.8.7) and I understand newer versions are much
> > improved.
> >
> > Adobe Flash has always made available a simple .so file for download
> > which you just stick in your mozilla/plugins folder and it just works,
> > regardless of your linux distro. Why can't gnash do something similar?
> > I think this would encourage many more people to give it a try if you
> > provided a .so file which just works.
> If you'd request an official backport from precise to lucid [1], I'd be
> happy to process it if you're willing to test it.  I've been wanting to
> SRU [2] it for a while, but haven't done the paperwork or the testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Micah Gersten
> Ubuntu Developer
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports/+filebug
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>
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