OpenBSD, Firefox, and Flash

An OpenBSD advocacy article led me to a mailing list posting on how to get Flash playing transparently in Firefox on OpenBSD. You could get Flash (and other clunky media formats) to work on Unix-like platforms that Adobe doesn't support for some time now, using a combination of players in packages and nearly random hacks in Firefox. This process makes everything simple, however.

I'm using 4.9/i386 and mozilla-firefox-3.6.13p3.

Set a package path in your shell. A few tests with ping and...