> I use OpenBSD as a desktop. Is there a documented way to get the latest
> Flash plugin (or any version) to work with the standard firefox

No, there is no Flash 9 on OpenBSD.  Adobe only released the Flash 9
Player for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Although OpenBSD  has the ability
emulate Linux, nobody has been able to get the Linux Flash 9 Player
working under Linux emulation.  This is a problem on all the BSD
operating systems.  For example, here is a recent discussion about Flash
9 on FreeBSD:

 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/6c0b5a3da5b7956e

It is so difficult to get the Linux Flash 9 Player working on BSD, that
the folks at PC-BSD have resorted to running the Windows Flash 9 Player
with Wine.

 http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=592

I don't think anyone has tried running the Windows Flash 9 Player with
Wine on OpenBSD.

Otherwise, it is only possible to run Flash 7 on OpenBSD.  There are
several possible ways of doing this, listed in the following article.

 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070907181228

Personally, I find Flash 7 players to be close to useless, since most of
the Flash that I seem to encounter on the web is Flash 9.  I find it
easier to just download YouTube videos with

 http://keepvid.com

and then to watch them with MPlayer or VLC.

I used to hope that Gnash, the Gnu Flash Player, would eventually
support Flash 9 on OpenBSD, but that seems unlikely now

 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119765675010299

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