Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> > since I had higher versions masked. I use
> > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to
> > upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that.
> > adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87
> > segfaults. Anyone having any success with this?
>
> I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and
> nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use
> firefox to view flash.
>
> Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports
> around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid
> blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else.
>
> So as I see it your choices are:
>
> firefox
> kde-4

I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :(

-Robin
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