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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:46:17
Message-Id: 200805081943.08369.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror? by Liviu Andronic
1 On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote:
2 > On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote:
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 with
5 > > embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got
6 > > broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using
7 > > netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been
8 > > removed. So what version are people using?
9 >
10 > Oh, I think you're in trouble here, and on the verge to switch to
11 > Opera. From one of Opera's developers:
12 >
13 > "with 9.2x only Flash version 9.0.48.0 will
14 > work, because in the subsequent releases Flash depended on being in a Gtk
15 > browser on linux/unix (this also broke Flash in Konqueror). This Gtk
16 > environment was created in the pluginwrapper in 9.5, but since 9.2x is
17 > stable this was too big a change for it. This has, however, been in 9.5
18 > snapshots for a while now - please check out the Beta2 and see if that
19 > resolves your issues:
20 >
21 > http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/"
22
23 Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc
24 iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951.
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick

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