On 02/13/2015 08:44 PM, Paul Rogers wrote:
> (Reposted to the correct list)
> 
> I'd really like to avoid using both Oracle's Java and Adobe's (frozen)
> Flash.  And I'm planning to stradle the BLFS for LFS-7.2, with more
> current packages, Firefox-31.4esr instead of 16.1.  I'm just starting
> that path, so pardon me if I get some of this wrong.  I'm hoping that
> having a (somewhat?) non-standard implementation, the "attack surface"
> will have some "ripples". ;-)
> 
> So I'm planning on installing gnash, though I think I'll follow my BLFS
> book for that, omitting pulseaudio.  Anybody know any pitfalls not in
> the book they'd like to tell me about?
> 
> Then because Java is such a huge attack surface, this is where I want
> the latest versions of OpenJDK-2.5.4 and Iced-Tea Web-1.5.  Again, is
> there anything in particular I should know to make the straddle work?
> 

From my past experience (not so recent to be honest), I found that Gnash is 
practically horrible.
It couldn't load quite a number of Flash apps and when it could, it was hogging 
CPU like crazy.
Even youtube wasn't great at the time.

As for Iced Tea, I found that it couldn't load some Java applets (compared to 
many that Gnash can't in the Flash area), but it proved a decent replacement 
for binary Java plugin. Not perfect, but works as it seems.

-- 
Note: My last name is not Krejzi.

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