Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux Is Available
Brian Gaynor
briang at pmccorp.com
Thu Oct 19 17:57:56 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:14 -0400, fredex wrote:
> Works nicely for me with Konqueror (on Centos 4.4). Works not so nicely with Firefox 1.5.0.7.
> Which isn't to say it doesn't work, it's just,... odd. Playing a .swf file
> on my local hard drive by doing "open | file" in Firefox works fine. Browsing
> to a web sitre with flash files on it is weird: Firefox gets horirbly slow,
> has trouble rendering the page fully, may lag for many seconds (or even minutes)
> before starting the video. Switching to another desktop and back seems to
> expedite things, but hititng the BACK arrow or attempting to close the browser
> is also extrmeely slow. Once Flash starts playing, though, flash itself seems
> to work fine, i t's just the Firefox browser that seems to be very slow.
>
> anybody else seen this?
Working very well for me in Firefox 1.5.0.7/Rawhide. Not seeing any of
the slowness/weirdness you describe and I can finally see video from
sites that require a version of Flash greater than 7 :)
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Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC5/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz
canis 10:55:28 up 2:23, 0 users,
load average: 0.38, 0.27, 0.15
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