One of the most common complaints about FreeBSD is that Flash doesn't work "out of the box", with either Firefox or Opera. For me, that's not such a bad thing generally, as I find 90% of the Flash usage to be for annying blinking ads. But there a few sites that require it, including most video sites for some reason. So on my old Windows box, I never did install it on Firefox, my main browser, but when I needed to open a Flash site, I would just use the extension to either open IE in a tab or a standalone Opera. Worked very nicely.
But that doesn't work on BSD, because there isn't a running Flash. There's plenty of pages out there that purport to get it to run, usually using the Linux emulation layer, linux-firefox and the Flash plugin, although the current Flash version is quite old and has some serious security holes. But here's Yet Another page that shows you how to do it, if you feel the need. For me, I just swap to my Windows box if I really really need to get Flash'ed.
Flash Plugin on FreeBSD
And here's another one: http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html
Here is a very long thread on the PC-BSD forums on how to get it to run on PC-BSD:
Flash7 with FreeBSD Firefox 1.5
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