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On 6/2/2011 10:40 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hi All, |
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>>> |
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>>> Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world |
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>>> but this is very new for me! |
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>>> I have this fantastic browser called Chromium (12.0.742.68) and I |
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>>> really like it. But, sometimes, when I see flash videos on different |
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>>> sites (youtube, cnn, bbc) the whole chromium become frozen and basicly |
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>>> impossible to kill it |
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>> |
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>> Flash is behaving like this in every browser on my Gentoo ~amd64 box |
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>> ever since Flash plugin 10.3 was released. Constantly freezing UI, |
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>> flash video still showing when when window is closed, etc. With |
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>> earlier 10.x series it was (mostly) okay, it was definitely usable. |
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>> With 10.3 so far it is basically a waste of time to try loading any |
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>> flash objects. Noscript/adblock to the rescue. ;) |
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> Replying to myself, it looks like flash plugin 10.3 is only available |
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> as 32-bit on linux (so it's using the nspluginwrapper), while 10.2 was |
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> 64-bit. So maybe that's part of the explanation in my case. |
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According to Adobe, they have "closed the Flash Player 10 for 64-bit |
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Linux program". Given that the only reason I bothered with Flash on |
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Linux was the native 64-bit support, I've masked off adobe-flash-10.3* |
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and have been quite happy with the last 10.2 so far. |
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--Mike |
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