Damjan <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
>Where did you find that version 9.0d55?

I'm going to have to agree with what Joe says, because I don't remember
where or when I got it. It must have been from Adobe some time ago.

-Beej

On 2007-04-28, D Herring <dherring@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
>
> Firefox 2/Flash 9 working fine on my slack 11 (-current).


Which is it? Slackware 11 or Slackware -current -- they are
NOT the same thing.

RW

Robby Workman wrote:
> On 2007-04-28, D Herring <dherring@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
>> Firefox 2/Flash 9 working fine on my slack 11 (-current).
>
> Which is it? Slackware 11 or Slackware -current -- they are
> NOT the same thing.

Hence they were both listed. In its present state, my box is more
-current than 11... I upgraded Flash shortly after FF2; I thought that
was before I upgraded x11, gcc, etc to current (a couple weeks ago)...

Either way, the OP seemed curious whether upgrading would fix his
problems; my experience is yes (though I don't have a clean slate to say
exactly how far is needed).

- DH

If using a nvidia driver with Flash + Firefox you get a unstable
program. Using a standard driver improves performance.

Rudie

K. Jennings wrote:
> I have tried to use the Flash 9 plugin under Firefox 2.0.0.* in
> Slackware 10.2, and it systematically crashes on any page with Flash
> contents? Anybody know if there is a way around this? Also, is this still
> happening in Slackware 11?
>

K. Jennings <kjennings@resurgence.net> wrote:
> I have tried to use the Flash 9 plugin under Firefox 2.0.0.* in
> Slackware 10.2, and it systematically crashes on any page with Flash
> contents? Anybody know if there is a way around this?

As far as I know it is a problem in the combination of Flash 9,
nvidia driver for X11 and the X11 version of Slack 10.2.
It also happens with firefox 1.5 and even Mozilla 1.7.13
Systems without nvidia (cards and drivers) haven't had any
problems, even in 10.2

> Also, is this still happening in Slackware 11?

No, same systems that consistently crashed under 10.2 now are
rocksteady here with 9.0r31 under 11.0
Of course the X11 version _did_ change, from 6.8.x to 6.9.0 and we
now also are using newer nvidia versions too.
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:25:42 +0200, rvto wrote:

> If using a nvidia driver with Flash + Firefox you get a unstable
> program. Using a standard driver improves performance.

Horsefeathers.

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:26:08 +0000, K. Jennings wrote:

> I have tried to use the Flash 9 plugin under Firefox 2.0.0.* in
> Slackware 10.2, and it systematically crashes on any page with Flash
> contents? Anybody know if there is a way around this? Also, is this still
> happening in Slackware 11?

This is the fix, at least it's what worked for me:

The Flash plugin files are installed by default in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins , where they are theoretically available to the
various variations of Mozilla browser (such as Firefox).

Copy them into the /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/plugins directory also, which
shouldn't be necessary, but fixed the browser crashing issue for me.
Adjust the path to Firefox plugins directory as needed for your system.

YMMV.


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