Adobe Flash only works sometimes

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 03:32:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:10 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>
>> I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN
>> is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video
>> either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I
>> noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
>> That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google
>> video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the
>> same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
>>
>> I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint,
>> unfortunately.
> ----
> that really is a problem with flash so your best bet is to take it up
> with Adobe (though I gather there's a beta of Flash 10 for Linux either
> available or available soon).

As I mentioned, using the same exact plugin in firefox2, it works
perfectly 100% of the time.   I've also tried the beta of Flash10, and
the same problem persists.  I'm blaming firefox3 for this mess.

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