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Firefox on Linux is broken

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Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

#3

Post by SwellJoe »

Shouldn't that be "Flash 10 on Linux is broken"?

Regardless, I have Flash player 10r12 running on the exact same system configuration and it's working reasonably well. One thing I would suggest, however, is using the 32 bit build of Firefox. It's not perfect, but I run for about a week between crashes with this configuration, and I have a hulu or Flash-based radio window running almost all the time lately...where, before on the 64 bit build, I had a lot of stability problems (with the plugin wrapper thing that allows 64 bit Firefox to use 32 bit plugins--not only did it crash a lot, but Flash felt disjointed from the browser in weird ways and a lot of stuff didn't work).

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by martey »

I think it is interesting that he says he is using the most recent Firefox version, but later says he is using Firefox 3.0.3 (3.0.5 was released earlier this week). Is this the latest version for Fedora 9?

edit Answering my own question - no: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=75053

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by Tichy »

Ubuntu 8.10, FF 3.0.5 and Flash 10,0,15,3 - not crashing. Not all Flash pages work, but that is fairly normal I guess. Flash sucks...

Installed Flash directly, not via Synaptic, if I remember correctly.

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by indiejade »

SwellJoe wrote: post #3

Shouldn't that be "Flash 10 on Linux is broken"? Regardless, I have Flash player 10r12 running on the exact same system configuration and it's working reasonably well. One thing I would suggest, however, is using the 32 bit build of Firefox. It's not perfect, but I run for about a week between crashes with this configuration, and I have a hulu or Flash-based radio window running almost all the time lately...where, be…

More like "Flash 10 on FC9 is broken." Fedora 9 was a less than stellar release, from what I've read. Though I tested it for a week or so and didn't have any problems on my install. My advice when this happens: go back to a previous versioning which does work. Fedora, especially, likes to release early and often. Not always a bad thing, but sometimes frustrating.

P.S. FC10 is out. Flash 10 + Fedora 10 . . .

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by mlLK »

sudo apt-cache showpkg adobe-flashplugin > out

EDIT:

   Package: adobe-flashplugin
   Versions: 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_partner_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
   Dependencies:
10.0.15.3-1hardy2 - debconf (16 (null)) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) fontconfig (0 (null)) libatk1.0-0 (2 1.20.0) libc6 (2 2.4) libcairo2 (2 1.6.0) libcurl3 (0 (null)) libfontconfig1 (2 2.4.0) libfreetype6 (2 2.3.5) libgcc1 (2 1:4.1.1-21) libglib2.0-0 (2 2.12.0) libgtk2.0-0 (2 2.12.0) libnspr4-0d (0 (null)) libnss3-1d (0 (null)) libpango1.0-0 (2 1.20.5) libstdc++6 (2 4.1.1-21) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxt6 (0 (null)) wget (0 (null)) firefox (0 (null)) konqueror-nsplugins (0 (null)) msttcorefonts (0 (null)) ttf-bitstream-vera (16 (null)) ttf-dejavu (0 (null)) ttf-xfree86-nonfree (0 (null)) x-ttcidfont-conf (0 (null)) xfs (2 1:1.0.1-5) flashplayer-mozilla (0 (null)) flashplugin (3 6) xfs (3 1:1.0.1-5) flashplugin (3 6)

    Provides: 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 - flashplugin-nonfree
EDIT: longest OCD edit/update evar

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by Herring »

Get 3.1b2. I found it considerably faster

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main #firefox-3.1

The only problem is you have to install it then update your shortcuts to launch "firefox-3.1" instead of just "firefox." And move your profile to ~/.mozilla/firefox-3.1/. I have over 30 extensions & they all worked after updating & overriding compatibility

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