flash and firefox

[Eric Anderson]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>
>> Strange - I have native firefox, with flash and acrobat reader 7, all 
>> working nice in 6-STABLE.  I did have to apply the
>
> On -current we have symbol versioning (thats a good new feature) and the
> problem is, that linuxpluginwrapper is not being able to handle it yet.

Yea, I do recall that.  Is it difficult to fix linuxpluginwrapper?  
Seems like a lot of people want it fixed, but nobody wants to fix it. :)


>> rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch though to make flash happy.  Linux-firefox 
>> however is more stable than native wrt flash.  I find the 
>> linux-firefox looks different, and the fonts are somewhat different 
>> in a strange kind of way, but not that noticeable.
>
> We use an old gtk and an old freetype in the linuxolator (an update of 
> the
> linux userland bits is upcomming, after the freeze I will commit the 
> first
> step). This may be the cause of the difference. Additionally you may not
> have the same theme engine available on the linux side. 

Thanks for the explanation!  I look forward to seeing those commits!  
(I'd be willing to test too if you'd like)


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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