> From: Richard <[email protected]>
>...
> > From: Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]>
> ...
> > Out of ideas, I guess that somewhere flash plugins are disabled. If you
> > could buikd Midori, then you could enable/disable flash. Then if it
> > works, problem solved. Also under Edit -> Preferences -> Extensions it
> > must appear an entry for "Shokwave Flash (Netscape plugins)". But
> > perhaps you had these tests possible with uzbl?
>
> I will look into midori - that is a good idea. Thanks.
I like this idea and started with build. Midori requires vala - which I
build successfully, and then expected the midori build to succeed.
I do not know if I have done something stupid, or if it is a minor error
in the text, but midori will not build successfully. configure demands the
presence of 'libnotify' and I can find no option in ./configure --help to
turn off this requirement. Thus I beleive that for midori-0.5.5 the
libnotify package is not optional.
(I note that BLFS development branch has moved on to midori-0.5.7,
it might be worth checking whether that will build without libnotify).
I then looked into building libnotify, but that in turn needs gtk3, which
then starts on a process of build and bloat that I did not wish to follow.
In keeping with the theme of Fernando's original suggestion, I have the
source for 'surf' and it was simple to add a dozen lines of C to iterate
over the entire plugin list and output the descriptions (and enabled flag)
for each.
The result: only the java plugin was found. According to webkit the flash
plugin does not exist.
Wondering if this is a version problem (and not fully understanding the
NPAPI/PPAPI change) I downloaded a few flash players back as far as version
10. None of these were recognised.
> > I don't know why you are using "--no-create --no-recursion". First
> > one,
> > don't know what it does. Second one, I cannot find in ./configure --help.
> >
> > I believe these are the only differences you have from the book, aren't
> > they?
>
> I am not 'using' those options. I typed the command exactly as per the book
> - and configure appears to have added those options itself. Does anyone know
> if they are relevant?
>
> I typed the command exactly as given (except for the backslash line
> continuations) and added the --disable-geolocation since I have no need for
> geoclue.
I have not had time to look into that, but I am surprised to see that configure
is arbitrarily adding options. Does anyone know what these mean?
> > Also, you seem to not have enchant, but I cannot believe this would
> > matter at all, for the problem here.
>
> I can build enchant if needed - it will do no harm. I agree that I see no
> reason why a spell checker would be relevant here.
Built it. No change, but thanks for the suggestion.
> > One thing I found in your log is:
> >
> > {{{
> > configure:20551: checking whether to enable media stream support
> > configure:20560: result: no
> > }}}
> >
> > This is intriguing.
>
> I had not noticed that. I agree - that does look interesting. I will dig
> deeper.
I have not had time to look at that yet - but it does seem odd. I will
check when I can.
As before, I welcome any further ideas (since I am running out of ideas). In
the absence of success I will simply have to resort to windows when flash
is required. Oh well.
Thanks again, R.
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