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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:25:37
Message-Id: 200812141725.22637.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox by CJoeB
1 On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I
5 > go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even
6 > though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the
7 > Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I
8 > be reporting on the Firefox web site?
9 >
10 > And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better.
11 > I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it
12 > until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must
13 > be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This
14 > site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't
15 > work properly.
16
17 When I want to be kind to Adobe, I say that their Linux support for Flash just
18 sucks. At other times I say ... um, never mind.
19
20 Adobe Flash sucks on Linux. What you are experiencing happens a lot to a lot
21 of people.
22
23 What version are you using? I got very good results upgrading to latest v10
24 even though it's hard masked. And it's 64 bit so I don;t need all that
25 wrapper stuff anymore
26
27
28 --
29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>