[K12OSN] flash-plugin crashing after update

[William Fragakis]

hoping that I don't get a deluge of spam like I did after my last
response...

latest flash version in the adobe repo: 11.2.202.251
adobe's url in my yum config files:
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/


other options:
Chrome  has it's own version of flash built-in. Sometimes it behaves
better.

Later versions of firefox can run youtube in html5 mode.

You may have to go outside of the regular repos

http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/English-site-introduction

install tutorial:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

I've used remi in the past when EL versions of Firefox lagged pretty
badly.

regards,
William


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> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:05:57 -0500
> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
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> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] flash-plugin crashing after update
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> Repos I've found consistent with CentOS are EPEL and rpmfusion. I only use
> rpmforge as src.rpm location for oddball stuff I rebuild. Adobe has a repo
> for flash that works well.
> 
> Flash is a heavy resource hog in a TC environment.  Look at doing network
> bandwidth throttling to youtube to enforce practical limits.
> On Nov 9, 2012 6:56 AM, "Barry Cisna" <cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us> wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> >
> > CentOS 6.3     32-bit
> > SL     6.1    client root
> >
> > Wanted to get opinions on  the latest flash-plugin crashing quite
> > frequently. I am usually one to go with the thought of "if it isn't
> > broke leave it alone".
> > I decided to pull down the latest,greatest  flash-plugin , from rpmforge
> > 11.2.202.238.0.2.el6.rf
> > ,,,about two weeks ago.
> > Now quite often when students view Youtubes mainly( My thought is
> > students should not have Youtube access,anyway)  in a matter of time the
> > viewing window shows 'flash-plugin has crashed".
> > Only way to get going is a TC reboot.
> > I am going to go back to the initial version of flash-plugin I plopped
> > on these servers at the offset.
> >
> > Also my thought is i should stick with the real epel release versioning
> > stuff versus rpmforge builds of rpms.
> >
> > Has anyone else been experiencing these crashes is what I would like to
> > know,just out of curiosity.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Barry
> >
> >
> >
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