16 Sep
2010
16 Sep
'10
12:08 a.m.
Niels Mayer wrote:
Who knows, maybe someone figured out a way to
'sploit flash, and
combine it with this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/
so Adobe pulled it until they could fix the flash part. :-)
I for one didn't like running the pulled-by-adobe 64 bit flash
binaries long after their time was up, so i'm glad to finally update.
I used to use the 64 bit Adobe flash plugin, but when they yanked
it, I started using Gnash (version 0.8.8 in Debian Testing).
The Gnash plugin works for Youtube (one of the main valid uses
for Flash) but doesn't work with Vimeo and a couple of others.
The Gnash CPU load is a bit higher that the Flash plugin but I
use it with the FlashBlock firefox plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/
so that is rarely a problem. The FlashBlock plugin also has the
advantage of disabling all that crappy Flash web advertising. For
any Flash object on a page I actually want to watch I can re-enable
just by clicking on it.
HTH,
Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo
http://www.mega-nerd.com/