Interviewed by CNN on 10/06/2013 21:56, LnrB told the world: > I currently have Flash 10.3.183.86. It plays Everything I point it at. > I have NO crash problems with SM2.17.1 (XP Home), certainly not with Flash. > > Like I always say, Newer is not necessarily Better. Don't blame > SeaMonkey for Flash's shortcomings. > > Several archived versions of Flash are here: > http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html > Find one you like and keep it somewhere safe.
The problem with that approach is that it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing. You solve your immediate problem of avoiding crashes, but you are deliberately using a plugin version with known security exploits. Until last year, Flash was the #1 in the Hall of Shame of plugin exploits (it has since been overtaken by Java). So, you might be trading long-term security for short-term convenience. By the way: I have been using "latest release version" Seamonkey and its predecessors for, oh, since about Mozilla Application Suite went 1.0, about eleven years ago. I also update plugins regularly. And somehow my setup works fine. So I don't think it's _just_ the newest releases of Flash to blame, nor I think it's _just_ recent versions of Seamonkey to blame, or even the two of them interacting; I think there must be a third factor there somewhere causing the instability. A few things that should be investigated: 1. Do you have been using the same profile for several years? It may have accumulated enough cruft (in the form of weird forgotten settings) to cause problems. 2. Flash does interact heavily with video. Maybe it's a video driver problem? I have seen flaky driver versions from all major video chipset makers (nVidia, ATI/AMD, Intel, S3...) 3. It's high time to move off Windows XP. Yes, I have seen all the arguments defending it; the truth is, it's almost twelve years old, it was originally designed at a time when Microsoft considered safe programming practices unnecessary, and for the last five years Microsoft's maintenance policy for it only cared about stopping viruses -- if a security patch made XP slower, devoured RAM like crazy or made it more crash-prone, well, they don't care. It has been becoming an unmaintanable mess for a few years now. I still have some XP machines under my care in some clients, and believe me, I'll be very happy the day the last of them is retired or upgraded to Win7. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my IBM PS/2. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.17 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
