Firefox on Linux is broken(david.weebly.com)
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Firefox on Linux is broken
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My thoughts exactly... I can't wait for <VIDEO> 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.
Die, flash, die. And take all these morons who built businesses on top of this junk with you.
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 . . .
P.S. FC10 is out. Flash 10 + Fedora 10 . . .
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 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.
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.
I also noticed that even if you disable a Flash object with Adblock, it continues to consume CPU cycles.
Flash is Trash.
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
edit Answering my own question - no: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=75053
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.
Installed Flash directly, not via Synaptic, if I remember correctly.
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/<stuff>. I have over 30 extensions & they all worked after updating & overriding compatibility
/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/<stuff>. I have over 30 extensions & they all worked after updating & overriding compatibility
sudo apt-cache showpkg adobe-flashplugin > out
EDIT:
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: Provides: 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 - flashplugin-nonfree
It should be Flash 10 on Experimental Linux distribution 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).