On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:19:55 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 00:18 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > >> I'm sorry to tell you that there is absolutely nothing we can do about >> crashes in Adobe's Flash plugin. > > Actually, there is. It's not exactly Epiphany's responsibility, but > don't forget that nspluginwrapper gives Epiphany some of the advantages > of Google Chrome's process model today. Just wrap the plugin in > nspluginwrapper and it will run in its own process. When it dies... you > don't see the flash app, but the browser is otherwise unaffected. It is > my understanding that Fedora wraps all plugins, 32 bit and 64 bit, on > both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms to gain this advantage, and to allow > them to treat plugins separately in their SELinux policy.
nspluginwrapper is surprisingly unreliable. I have run it since installing Debian's amd64 port on my laptop back in May, and have frequently ran into a mysterious state where Flash movies would appear as a grey box rather than being run. The only way to fix this was to restart the browser. When it did work, nspluginwrapper seemed to make many Flash movies a lot slower than they should have been. So as much as I don't like to admit it, I was immensely glad when Adobe released Flash for amd64 and I was finally able to run Flash movies reliably and at a reasonable speed. :( -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
