Firefox headaches

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 12/20/04 02:16 PM, RW sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Monday 20 December 2004 12:12, RW wrote:
> 
> <SNIP> 
> Ah sorry, flashplugin-firefox is the GPLed flash clone. This didn't work at 
> all for me when I tried it earlier in the year, typically cpu usage would go 
> up to 100%, and most of the time it would crash.

Yeah, I wasn't seeing the CPU spike, more like a sudden halt.  Not
even a screeching halt, more like it had just hit an immovable object.

> The genuine Macromedia version for Linux is reliable, but it relies on your 
> installing linux emulation, and being comfortable with installing a 
> third-party binary.

Ah, well, who's going to do flash better than Macromedia? :)

I noticed that the flashpluginwrapper installed linux-flashplugin6 as
a dependency.  What was your experience with 7?

Thanks.
Lou
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