Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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>> I thought I'd report back that while Flash continues to crash on this
>> machine only even with updates to both Firefox & adobe-flash, I tried
>> Google Chrome this morning and it works perfectly. I appears the root
>> cause of this problem would be Firefox, not Flash or nvidia-drivers,
>> and I once again have a solution for watching Flash-based media, at
>> least for the short term.
>>
>> My thinking at this point is that Google is going to drive a solution
>> that keeps YouTube users happy. I doubt long-term they'll let Adobe, a
>> much smaller company, control their future... :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn't Google bundle a version of flash with their browser?  Or is that
> something that's coming in the future?
>
> I had flash crashing a lot on my machine, and just disabled hardware
> acceleration in the settings to fix it.
>
> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2

Maybe that's why it works. Who knows? ;-)

Anyway, the 'disable HW acceleration' recommendation didn't work on my
machine because the crash was in the Mozilla Flash plugin container
and Flash never came up. It was just a Sad Mac face and a box that
said Flash crashed so I never had the opportunity to turn it off. Even
with the recommendations folks here made about turning it off in the
config file it still never worked for me. I've come to think of this
as a Firefox crash that only happens when starting Flash, and not
actually a Flash crash.

- Mark