Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Plugin for Linux

[Dennis J.]

On 11/18/2008 10:31 PM, Martin Stransky wrote:
> Dennis J. wrote:
>> On 11/18/2008 08:52 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Dennis J.<dennisml at conversis.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The problem is that nspluginwrapper actually can make problems
>>>> worse. For me
>>>> flash on it's own works perfectly fine but as soon as I wrap it I
>>>> often get
>>>> the "grey box of death". In fact I used to blame the various
>>>> problems I had
>>>> on flash when they were really nspluginwrappers fault.
>>>
>>> Works perfectly fine? Or appears to work perfectly fine? What if
>>> flash is behaving badly and doing something...not malicious..but wrong
>>> and potentially damaging...that nspluginwrapper stops?
>>
>> I'm not saying that using nspluginwrapper is a bad idea but the
>> current implementation doesn't work very well. How does introducing a
>> well known problem provide a good solution to preventing a potential one?
>
> I think you'll appreciate nspluginwrapper when flash plugin crashes and
> takes whole browser to hell...It's definitely your choose ;-)
>
> The current nspluginwrapper implementation is not perfect but some
> people prefer browser stability...

But that's the point. For quite a few people browser stability actually 
*decreases* when nspluginwrapper is installed.

Regards,
   Dennis