![]() I have had not that many -ve experience with XP/2K so far that many ppl. The other 2 times it was bcos of a HD issues. I have experienced BSODs 3 times in Windows.įirst time for unknown reason in Win2K (incidentally it was after I d/w a spoof of a Mac “Switch” ad which I showed to my boss who had a PowerMac at his home) So much for Firefox/Mozilla stability.Īs a user discovering Linux on Desktop and being impressed with various features vis-a-vis Windows, I am slowly discovering that applications in Linux can crash as good as we assume in Windows. Whatever it is, it is important that the application is crashing. So it is either a mozilla issue in Linux or Adobe Flash in Linux. about:plugins in FF2.0.1 in my WinXP givesĪpplication/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf YesĪpplication/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yes I have been using Adobe Flash windows plugin 9.0.28 for a while and it has not created any problems till now. Next time somebody says IE crashes while Mozilla rocks! I am going to laugh :-)) I am planning to reinstall the flash player plugin 7 for the mozilla family. Thank you Adobe for making browsing experience in Linux worse than the the worst in Windows. In my limited experience with Linux (roughly 8 months) and >7yrs with Windows(98, 2K, XP) as a user(not a programmer/developer) I have never encountered anything that resembles this behaviour even with the various crappy incarnations of IE5 and IE6. Considering it was not in the default installation of libflashplayer.so … Now in all this mess, Opera 9.02 is the only one that is currently not crashing when encountering the above websites. ![]() Now going to Laptoplogic and Toyota which are designed for Flash 8 or newer, I get the crash after 5s if not immdly. Now this opened the youtube page and immediately crashed with a speed that I wish firefox starts with. Next time I start the browser there is a option to Restore Session which I tried. To be safe, I logged off and relogged on. Incase of Youtube, I get to play a clip and then at the end of the clip is the end of my browser. I have never seen Mozilla family browsers Firefox2, SeaMonkey and Flock(.7.9.1) crash so wellin many months of usage. Not deterred, I copied the file libflashplayer.so into the plugins folder of Opera and Flock. Sheesh! Adobe, are u really that crapish.? I tried to install to /usr/lib/opera(where my Opera installation is) and the installer repeatedly said “Directory not found”. What I observed is that the old plugin was 2.7MB while the new one was 6.1MB.īut this was really funny. usr/lib/mozilla-firefox2 and /usr/lib/seamonkey the libflashplayer.so file into the plugins folder. On extraction and following the exact instructions, I was able to extract to 93 with all updates installed and custom Firefox 2(as FF2 is not yet available thru Synaptic). Well, I was excited that for the first time Linux had parity(or even higher than 9.0.31 for Linux and 9.0.28 for Windows) Windows with respect to flash player. people writing the “mainstream sites” just needs to get either shot, or into an occupation where they arent surrounded by an utterly smelling stink of failure. ![]() I can perfectly easily embed videos onto sites myself, where it works perfectly with all linux media player browser plugins i’ve tried. Those sites just needs to get ignored, they clearly dont want people visiting. It may be that flash works better than “mainstream sites” for videos, but that is then because those sites are doing it WRONG. ![]() With Flash, it tends to work, albeit it with frightening processor usage.” ![]() You click and nothing happens, or you get a blank screen, or the video doesn’t play in the right place, or whatever. I’ve always found that the available plugins for other formats have problems on mainstream sites. which makes it impossible for me to run flash and 64bit plugins.Ī hard choice? definetly not, flash will simply be “Actually, though, it’s probably the best format for embedded media playing in Linux. and also i use konqueror, which means it relies on a binary for loading the netscape plugins, and so if i must choose once, 32bit or 64bit. i shouldnt need to install lots of 32bit compatibility stuff to use plugins. “Do you really need a 64bit web browser tbh? I think i’m happy allowing firefox stay as a 32bit app on my x86_64 installs.” ![]()
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