Re: I Finally Got Shockwave!

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 09/01/05 

Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:04:31 +0200

In alt.os.linux Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@yourthirdtower.com.imagination>:
> Davorin Vlahovic enlightened us with:
>> You do know that there is Firefox for Linux?

;)

> But how would you let that use Windows plugins? There is no shockwave
> for Linux...

Sure? Must have missed something, but "about:plugins" in mozilla
and firefox shows among others:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

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