Firefox 3.0.4 and Flashplayer 10

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:50:48 +0000, Dan C wrote:

> 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).

i prefer 2.x the big back button annoys the hell of me in 3.x
and i don't like installing an extension to disable it !

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:52:54 +0000, goarilla wrote:

>
> i prefer 2.x the big back button annoys the hell of me in 3.x and i
> don't like installing an extension to disable it !

.... and 3.x also installs the bookmarks file in a difficult way.