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Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by old-gregg » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 5:26 AM UTC

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…

My thoughts exactly... I can't wait for tag supported by YouTube/Hulu. Once those two can be accessible without Flash, I'm done with this garbage: the front page of ESPN.com does nothing special, in fact it's devoid of any functionality, yet it consumes 35MB of RAM and eats 20% of 2.4Gz CPU at idle. Fucking insane.

Die, flash, die. And take all these morons who built businesses on top of this junk with you.

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by sadfsa » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 7:27 AM UTC

I disabled Flash when I discovered that if a Web page has multiple Flash objects, then each one gets its own thread. Where one Flash object consumes 20% of an average CPU, 20 of them can render a computer unresponsive.

I also noticed that even if you disable a Flash object with Adblock, it continues to consume CPU cycles.

Flash is Trash.

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by dhimes » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 1:42 PM UTC

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…

Flash 10 isn't out for fedora yet. I assume they knew there were problems and haven't put it in the repo.

Flash 9 on Fedora 9 is working fine.

Re: Firefox on Linux is broken

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Post by SwellJoe » Mon, Dec 22, 2008, 12:14 AM UTC

dhimes wrote: post #13

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…

Flash 10 isn't out for fedora yet. I assume they knew there were problems and haven't put it in the repo. Flash 9 on Fedora 9 is working fine.

Flash from Adobe will never be in the official Fedora repository. It isn't Open Source, and Fedora is a pure FOSS distro. Flash 9 on Fedora 9 also has to come from Adobe. And there are Flash 10 binaries from Adobe for Fedora....I'm running 10r12, as I mentioned.