Firefox 3.0.4 and Flashplayer 10

On Dec 14, 11:02 am, Dan C <youmustbejok....RemoveThis@lan.invalid> wrote:
> Anyone using Slack 12.2 and noticing some issues with FF3 and Flash10?  
> This is a stock installation, using the Flash10 from Slackbuilds.org.  
> Some sites seem OK, but one in particular (http://www.mlb.com) will not
> display all the content on the page, and usually locks up the browser.
>
> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1, and
> things work fine.  Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with the
> newer browser (FF3).  Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>
> Thanks.
>
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I compiled my xulrunner and firefox manually and everything runs very
smoothly with flash 10 from SBo.

Dan C wrote:

> things work fine. Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with the
> newer browser (FF3). Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...

Yes, I still use flash 9 when needed.

Flash 10 is beta...

S.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:50:27 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:02:25 +0000, Dan C wrote:
>
>> Anyone using Slack 12.2 and noticing some issues with FF3 and Flash10?
>> This is a stock installation, using the Flash10 from Slackbuilds.org.
>> Some sites seem OK, but one in particular ( http://www.mlb.com ) will
>> not display all the content on the page, and usually locks up the
>> browser.
>
> Both the current and beta releases of flash-10 crash firefox 3.0.4 and
> 3.1b2 particularly when trying to switch to full-screen.
>
> But I have no stability problems with firefox-3.0.4 and flash-10 on
> Solaris.
>
>> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1,
>> and things work fine. Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with
>> the newer browser (FF3). Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>
> Flash-9 is stable but has some security issues.

Thanks for the input. I guess I'll go back to FF3 and downgrade to Flash
9.


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On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:31:53 +0100, Simon Sibbez wrote:

> Dan C wrote:
>
>> things work fine. Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with the
>> newer browser (FF3). Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>
> Yes, I still use flash 9 when needed.
>
> Flash 10 is beta...

Thanks.


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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:42:17 +0000, Dan C wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:39:31 +0000, Dan C wrote:
>
>
>>>> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1,
>>>> and things work fine. Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with
>>>> the newer browser (FF3). Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>
>>> Flash-9 is stable but has some security issues.
>
>> Thanks for the input. I guess I'll go back to FF3 and downgrade to
>> Flash 9.
>
> Hmph... That didn't work. FF3 seems to be the issue here, doesn't work
> on that site with either F9 or F10. FF2 works with either. I guess
> it's back to FF2 for me. <shrug>

Seamonkey and F9 seems to be very stable here.

JB

Dave Uhring <daveuhring.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Flash-9 is stable but has some security issues.

As far as I know those have been fixed in 9.0r151
flash-player-9.0.151.0
is the one I'm using here.
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:01:36 +0100, Eef Hartman wrote:

> Dave Uhring <daveuhring DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Flash-9 is stable but has some security issues.
>
> As far as I know those have been fixed in 9.0r151
> flash-player-9.0.151.0
> is the one I'm using here.

Thanks, Eef. I had been using the r124 or r125 version.

Do you have a URI for that version? Adobe insists on providing v10 of
their flash player.

On Dec 14, 10:02 am, Dan C <youmustbejok... DeleteThis @lan.invalid> wrote:
> Anyone using Slack 12.2 and noticing some issues with FF3 and Flash10?  
> This is a stock installation, using the Flash10 from Slackbuilds.org.  
> Some sites seem OK, but one in particular (http://www.mlb.com) will not
> display all the content on the page, and usually locks up the browser.
>
> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1, and
> things work fine.  Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with the
> newer browser (FF3).  Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Ahhhhhhh!:  http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/relieve.jpg

Hi Dan:
I'm using FF 3.0.4 in S12.2 and Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12 and the site
you metion seems OK here. KDE 4.1.3 from testing and no problem at all
here.

Greetings.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:39:31 +0000, Dan C wrote:


>>> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1,
>>> and things work fine. Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with
>>> the newer browser (FF3). Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...

>> Flash-9 is stable but has some security issues.

> Thanks for the input. I guess I'll go back to FF3 and downgrade to
> Flash 9.

Hmph... That didn't work. FF3 seems to be the issue here, doesn't work
on that site with either F9 or F10. FF2 works with either. I guess it's
back to FF2 for me. <shrug>


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Dave Uhring <daveuhring.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you have a URI for that version? Adobe insists on providing v10 of
> their flash player.

Not exactly for THAT version, but
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=2
brings you to a page where you can download (almost) all older versions.
The Flash Player 9 link (134 MB) is a .zip file with all 9.0 versions,
including the 9.0r151 one for Linux.
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Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman.TakeThisOut@math.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=2

I see the line wrapped, it is ONE single URL, up to and including the
ID=2.
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:23:17 +0100, Eef Hartman wrote:

> Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman RemoveThis @math.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=2
>
> I see the line wrapped, it is ONE single URL, up to and including the
> ID=2.

Got it, thanks.

At the moment I have the ftp.mozilla.org release of firefox-3.0.4 running
and using flash-10 (latest release) and the combination seems to be stable.
Sites which crashed the Slackware distro version of firefox-3.0.4,
including Adobe's own site, now display without crashing the browser.

On 2008-12-15, jcamez wrote:
>> Anyone using Slack 12.2 and noticing some issues with FF3 and Flash10?  
>> This is a stock installation, using the Flash10 from Slackbuilds.org.  
>> Some sites seem OK, but one in particular (http://www.mlb.com) will not
>> display all the content on the page, and usually locks up the browser.
>>
>> I've removed FF3 and installed the FF 2.0.18 package from Slack 12.1, and
>> things work fine.  Haven't yet tried downgrading Flash to 9 with the
>> newer browser (FF3).  Wondering if anyone else is seeing this...
>>
>> Thanks.

> I'm using FF 3.0.4 in S12.2 and Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12 and the site
> you metion seems OK here. KDE 4.1.3 from testing and no problem at all
> here.

Are you sure? What's not working for me is that on the right side
(approx the rightmost 1/3 of the page), there are supposed to be
baseball headlines on a white background. All that I'm seeing is a
blank gray section.

By the way, please trim out someone's signature block before you reply.
When you don't do that, many newsreaders will not show your post at all,
because they strip out things below the signature block delimiter (-- ).

Anyway, thanks to all who replied on this. I've decided to stick with
Firefox 2.0.18 and Flash 10, as it works properly and I don't need
anything that Firefox 3.x provides (very little difference between
them).


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