flash and firefox

[Alexander Leidinger]

Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:

> 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. 
> :)

I don't know. The author of linuxpluginwrapper first has to make himself
familiar with symbol versioning.

>>> 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)

When I commit the new linux_base, it will not be the new default. And before
we can use it, we first have to convert the linux-gtk (and other) to the
USE_LINUX_RPM infrastructure (patches welcome).

Bye,
Alexander.

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