[gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Grant]

Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
I've emerged epiphany with the xulrunner USE flag and I've re-emerged
netscape-flash with no luck.  Does anyone know how to get flash
working?  Can java be made to work too?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Erik Hahn]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:12:27AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
> and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in
it - it often causes Firefix to crash. I recommend to either try one 
of the open source alternatives or install Flashblock [1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/433

	-Erik
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Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Grant]

>> Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
>> and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
> Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in
> it - it often causes Firefix to crash. I recommend to either try one
> of the open source alternatives or install Flashblock [1].

Do you mean open-source alternatives to netscape-flash?  If so, can
you recommend one?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Erik Hahn]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:54:52AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Do you mean open-source alternatives to netscape-flash?  If so, can
> you recommend one?
I personally use netscape-flash because the open source don't support
flash completely. There are two alternatives:

* gnash
* swfdec (swfdec-mozilla for the plugin)

	-Erik
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Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Benjamin Leggett]

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:12:27 -0700
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
> and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
> I've emerged epiphany with the xulrunner USE flag and I've re-emerged
> netscape-flash with no luck.  Does anyone know how to get flash
> working?  Can java be made to work too?
> 
> - Grant
> 

Epiphany is pretty crashy with netscape-flash here. As has been said,
it's a flsh problem, not a firefox/epiphany one persay.

I'm using gnash here, and it works about 70% percent of the time for
YouTube.

Ben Leggett


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[gentoo-user] Re: epiphany & flash

[James]

Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
> and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
> I've emerged epiphany with the xulrunner USE flag and I've re-emerged
> netscape-flash with no luck.  Does anyone know how to get flash
> working?  Can java be made to work too?

Seamonkey seems to be working fine with flash
I do not use it tons, but a few times a day and it seems to be just
fine with Seamonkey. This has not always been the case though....


hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: epiphany & flash

[Erik Hahn]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:34:47PM +0000, James wrote:
> Seamonkey seems to be working fine with flash
> I do not use it tons, but a few times a day and it seems to be just
> fine with Seamonkey. This has not always been the case though....
Whether flash works or not seems to be pretty random. I once could
improve the issue by reinstalling flash although everything was - 
actually - exactly the same as before reinstalling.

	-Erik
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Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Erik,
on Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:34:11PM +0200, you wrote:
> Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in
> it - it often causes Firefix to crash.

Likely. Pretty much the only reason of FF3 crashes here.

> I recommend to either try one of the open source alternatives or
> install Flashblock [1].

Note however that this can make flash even more unstable in combination
with other blockers like NoScript. I had Flashblock installed since
the time when NoScript didn't have this functionality and it caused FF
to crash 90% of the time I manually started a YouTube video. Since
NoScript can do it, I got rid of Flashblock, whitelisted a few sites and
have since had FF uptimes of weeks again.

cheers,
	Matthias
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[gentoo-user] Re: epiphany & flash

[james]

Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de> writes:


> Whether flash works or not seems to be pretty random. I once could
> improve the issue by reinstalling flash although everything was - 
> actually - exactly the same as before reinstalling.

Yes, I've seen this behavior too.

It's working pretty sporty right now with seamonkey.

hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Grant]

>> Firefox is crashing on me all the time.  I searched for an alternative
>> and came up with epiphany.  I like it but I can't get flash to work.
> Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in
> it - it often causes Firefix to crash. I recommend to either try one
> of the open source alternatives or install Flashblock [1].

I've got flashblock installed and it works with youtube.com as far as
being able to click and play the video, but not cnn.com.  Do you find
it works pretty well in general?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany & flash

[Erik Hahn]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:42:14AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> I've got flashblock installed and it works with youtube.com as far as
> being able to click and play the video, but not cnn.com.  Do you find
> it works pretty well in general?

I've never had any problem with it. Does it work without Flashblock?

There might be an icon in the status bar to temporarily disable
Flashblock completely (I've used Noscript, not Flashblock for a while,
though).

	-Erik

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