Firefox and Flash on Linux
I just did something incredible. I installed the Flash 7 plugin into Firefox with all of 3 clicks from my mouse on a Linux computer. That’s right, I installed the Flash plugin with all of 3 mouse clicks on my Mandrake Linux box. In the past, this was one of the harder things to accomplish. I can remember when a new version of Mandrake would come out and people would upgrade. The forums would be filled with people trying to figure out how to get the plugin installed and working with their browser.
Me, I just clicked my mouse a few times and it was done. I did not even have to restart the browser. Firefox is absolutely amazing. Whenever, it detects that you do not have something that you should, it displays a little warning at the top of the screen with a button to download it. This was the case with Flash. So I clicked the button. This gave me a dialog box where I could choose the plugin that I wanted. In this case, Flash was the only. I then clicked on the install link. This brought up the Macromedia EULA, which I accepted, and the whole thing was finished. The browser reloaded the page and Flash was installed. Simply amazing.
Bottom line, if you are not using Firefox, what are you waiting for? This is just one more example of how Firefox kicks IE’s but.