Doesn't Google bundle a version of flash with their browser? Or is that something that's coming in the future?
I had flash crashing a lot on my machine, and just disabled hardware acceleration in the settings to fix it. Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 On May 6, 2012 10:28 AM, "Mark Knecht" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem. > >> Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread. > >> > >> I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an > >> NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 a few > >> weeks ago all Flash apps crash the plugin within Firefox. I posted a > >> bug report here and got shot down for reasons I don't understand. (I > >> understand what he said and why he said it, but I didn't understand > >> them just giving up without feedback back to Adobe, etc.) > >> > >> I'm wondering if anyone else has suffered through this to find a > >> solution. The nouveau suggestion isn't where I want to go with my > >> machines and I'm just not finding any solutions on the web yet. > >> > >> Anyway, there was at the time a newer (IIRC) or possibly slightly > >> older (IIDRC) Flash ebuild but it's been removed from portage. That > >> one worked for me. There is a newer version (11.2.202.233) listed on > >> the Adobe Flash site but I haven't found info on what it corrects. > >> > >> Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > > > Flash 11.2 added some new kind of hardware acceleration which > > apparently doesn't work properly for whatever reason. Disable HW > > acceleration in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and cross your fingers... or > > downgrade to 11.1. > > > > I thought I'd report back that while Flash continues to crash on this > machine only even with updates to both Firefox & adobe-flash, I tried > Google Chrome this morning and it works perfectly. I appears the root > cause of this problem would be Firefox, not Flash or nvidia-drivers, > and I once again have a solution for watching Flash-based media, at > least for the short term. > > My thinking at this point is that Google is going to drive a solution > that keeps YouTube users happy. I doubt long-term they'll let Adobe, a > much smaller company, control their future... :-) > > Cheers, > Mark > >
