Flash Player "Square" Preview Release - a new hope

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:55:59 -0500
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > i just sumbled upon this new flash player release by adobe:
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> >
> > i might be making an idiot out of myself, because this might have been
> > discussed beforehand, but oh well... ;)
> >
> > i went for the "32-bit Content Debugger Players Linux" version and after
> > throwing it at nspluginwrapper everything works fine so far. i haven't
> > experienced any segfaults (i'm sure anybody running flash 8-10 knows what I'm
> > talking about ;)).
> >
> > anybody else tried it yet? i'm running chromium 5.0.375.127 btw (built with
> > base gcc (4.2.x)).
> >
> > cheers.
> > alex
> >
> 
> Firefox 3.6.10 here (on 8-STABLE amd64 and 8.1-RELEASE-p1 i386).
> 
> I'm using the Linux version found under "32-bit Release Players". The
> "32-bit Content Debugger Player" was wreaking serious havok :(
> 
> With the "Release" player, it's still dumping core randomly, although
> much less often than usual. Very cool :)
> 
> So, what's really going on with the npviewer.bin dumps? Is FreeBSD
> missing some magic from the linuxulator code, or is the Flash plugin
> really just THAT crappy?
> 

I'm using linux-opera and the operapluginwrapper also dumps core now and
then.  It doesn't seem to be specific to npviewer.bin.

--
Gary Jennejohn