Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Plugin for Linux

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 21:31:38 UTC 2008


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...

ma.




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