On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 15:36 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: > On 30/06/12 14:57, C. Falconer wrote: > > On 30/06/12 14:49, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > >> I'm kind of growing tired editing /etc/adobe/mms.cfg each time I want to > >> avoid blue people on youtube and player crashing on other sites. > > > > Stop watching the Smurfs then :-P > > > Or use chromium on ubuntu 12.04 > With pulse, sound works reliably. > > My experience, 99.9% of the time, youtube is fine on chromium (sound and > video). > > If you have some "suspect" videos on youtube that kill things, or don't > work for you, I am > happy to try them out - so post them, and maybe a working configuration > can be agreed on.. > > Cheers, > Derek. >
Funny, this is the fourth time this week only when I am suggested both online and off to use Chromium. I have it installed, but I'm still resisting to make it my default browser, mainly because of add-ons like FEBE, AdBlock, Flashblock, NoScript, Firebug, other dev toolbars, and the likes that make my life easier on Firefox, the equivalent functions of which I couldn't find that easy on Chromium. And Chromium insistence to authenticate with a google account whenever I want to go online doesn't help it win me over. Coming back to flash and online videos, I don't think it's a browser thing though, I think it's a pure flash thing. I just checked with both Firefox and Chromium and when I see blue people on youtube with one, I see them blue with the other browser too. After editing /etc/adobe/mms.cfg the people on youtube regain their normal colour in both browsers. I just now tested on several other sites where I know I have to edit back that file for the flash player not to crash, this time without doing it. For example I tried four short videos on bbc.com and indeed, Chromium behaves better, crashed only once, but completely, saying "The application Chromium Web Browser has closed unexpectedly.", whereas Firefox stayed on, only the flash player crashed twice and only after playing the video. I can live with that, especially knowing that I get no crashes if I edit back that file. So while I'll keep an open mind for the future, in the end I'm not convinced yet it's worth switching browsers. But thanks for reminding me of Chromium again. Adrian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
