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From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 01:55:08
Message-Id: 200805060854.58044.robin.atwood@attglobal.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror? by Alex Schuster
1 On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Robin Atwood writes:
3 > > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE
4 > > 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page
5 > > with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something
6 > > got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using
7 > > netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have
8 > > been removed. So what version are people using?
9 >
10 > New flash on one machine, where I have the same problems. I disabled flash
11 > in konqueror, so do not get the segfaults all the time, but it sucks to
12 > use firefox for every site with flash I want to use.
13 >
14 > So on another machine, I kept the old 9.0.48.0-r1, despite the many
15 > security bugs.
16 >
17 > Maybe I will save the old flash stuff in some special directory which I
18 > will tell konqueror to use, so I can upgrade flash and use the new
19 > version, except for konqueror.
20 >
21 > Wonko
22
23 I solved the problem by downloading the old netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1.ebuild
24 from http://sources.gentoo.org/ and placing it in my local overlay. But, as
25 you say, it sucks...
26
27 Cheers
28 -Robin
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