On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: > I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' > package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for > about 30 seconds at a time just using my ISP's webmail interface. I ended > up holding version 1.6.3 up until a couple of days ago, when I investigated > more carefully and found that 1.7.* switched to using the Debian alternatives > system -- to allow sysadmins to select the particular library which will > provide support for Flash. See bug report 497385: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=128;bug=497385 > > Following the instructions there, I updated to flashplugin-nonfree 1.7.2 > using 'aptitude', tested that I still had the problem with freezing (I did), > closed Iceweasel, ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug > report, > > update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so > > then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me > as 1.6.3 ever did. > > I'm not sure this will solve your problem, but I'm hoping it helps you (or > anyone else reading this).
This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]