Re: [Gnash-dev] OLPC bug 5987: can't invoke "firefox" on OLPC

[strk]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:03:58PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> When going to pbskids.org, there's a flash animation.  It apparently
> tries to do some web browser navigation, which doesn't work with gnash.
> 
> There are a couple of Unimplemented's, probably some codec problems
> with the sound files (unclear), but the interesting bit is at the very
> end, where Gnash tries to invoke "firefox".  Here's the logfile
> (from /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/org.laptop.WebActivity-1.log).
> 
> (That navigation works in real Firefox on Ubuntu, with a close-to-CVS
> version of gnash.  There must be something screwy in the browser
> plugin that we use on the OLPC.)

Head CVS had a change that requires you to run 'make install-plugins'
in order to install the plugin. New code in head should notn invoke
'firefox' (or any alternative url opener specified in the gnashrc)
when given the -F <fd> switch, which the new plugin will provide.

--strk;