A couple of questions
 

1) The native n900 browser can play flash, but I installed firefox & opera, those cant. I figured that the flash .so file needs to be installed. So I searched .so file using "find / -name *so" and found the flash .so file. I copied the file into the firefox directory with the other .so files, but it still doesnt work. Can someone explain why?

2) Can I install google chrome on n900? Can I download the .deb file, copy it on n900 and run dpkg?

3) How can I connect to my n900 from windows xp over WiFi?

4) Is there any VNC server for maemo?

Re: A couple of questions
 

opera mini doesn't support flash, firefox should but imho is better the default browser than firefox.

maybe using easy debian

mobile hot spot

I don't know, but there's an openssh server to connect via ssh...

bye
Mr.Rent

Re: A couple of questions
 

I guess this is still valid instructions for enabling flash on FF.

http://www.nokiaphoneblog.com/2010/0...bile-1-0-n900/

Re: A couple of questions
 

you need winscp to connect via windows and ssh or putty

Re: A couple of questions
 

Officially, Firefox Mobile doesn't support Flash. Unofficially, you can still go ahead and enable it; I've done this on mine, and use Flash just fine with it. You don't need to download anything (Firefox will go ahead and use the Flash already present on the n900), you just have to change a few settings.

This web page is where I got my info on what to do:

http://www.nokiaphoneblog.com/2010/0...bile-1-0-n900/

The latest version of Firefox looks a little different than the one in that article, but in short the steps are pretty much the same. Here is what you need to do:

1) Go to the "about:config" page in Firefox.

2) Search for the following two preferences:

plugin.default_plugin_disabled
plugin.disable

and change the values of both of these from "true" to "false".

3) Restart Firefox, and voila, Flash is now available. :)

Edit: drat, naabi answered this one before I got to it. :)

Re: A couple of questions
 

Help. I am trying to connect to my ubuntu using VNC Viewer. It is able to connect but I am not getting any feedback on N900. If I click on n900, the click goes to my desktop(and say it opens a window) but the screen on n900 doesnt update.

Re: A couple of questions
 

Which vnc viewer are you using on the N900?

Have you tried Presence VNC?

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Those instructions are outdated for Firefox 4b4 and later.

Flash on Firefox Mobile 4b4 and later:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=933094&postcount=1




Chrome can be installed from this external repo:
http://jacekowski.org/node/1
No need for easy debian....
Flash works in it out of the box but is a a little unstable.
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Re: A couple of questions
 

Hmm. I'm using the 1.1 version of Firefox Mobile from the download link on the Firefox homepage, rather than the beta off the nightly build; I don't even see the "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" on my about:config page. (And, in any case, the old method still worked for me.) Perhaps it'll take a bit longer before the updates in the main branch work their way out to an official release?

Re: A couple of questions
 

1.1 is ancient.
4.x has loads of changes.

Flash support was completly overhauled in 4b4 hence the new config variable.

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The is also the normal 4b4, which is not a nightly build:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...eleases/4.0b4/
(Different ftp server with release versions.)

Firefox repo and website download are broken/stuck at 1.1

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Thanks! I'm trying out the 4b4 now. It does seem to start up much more quickly than 1.1. And, I've got NPR's flash-based audio stream running on it right now...

Edit: After playing around with it, I went back to Firefox 1.1. The 4b4 beta is still just too buggy; in particular, I was never able to type into any text fields using it. Maybe the nightly builds are better, but I think I'll wait until they've got a more solid release before using it for general-purpose web browsing...