Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. I get the same result on a sarge system. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. Thanks, Terry Edo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Fleyer Str. 196, 58097 Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +2331 840446Fax: +2331 843920 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 09:09, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. I get the same result on a sarge system. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. Thanks, Terry I've had succes using qemu. But I don't remember exactly how I did it. Google for it. Pim Edo -- Lingewoud B.V.| Tel. +31 418 663963 Maasdijk 4| Fax. +31 418 663053 5328 BG Rossum| [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands | www.lingewoud.com pgpUM4yKF3Vxf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. It seems I was wrong: I just removed swf-player completely (aptitude also removed a few other 'unused' packages with that removal), re-started Firefox, and the CPU Load problem still persists: You can verify it here: http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/index.html In short: The page above eats a huge load of my CPU no matter whether swf-player is installed or not ... There's obviously something else that's wrong ... Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. Another way of handling this would be to use the noscript plugin. It will let you disable flash (or javascript) generally, but it has a handy icon to enable it for an individual site. So you could generally avoid it, but if there was some site you really wanted to try you could turn it on and see if swf-player works for it. On this topic, has anyone tried Gnash? I got an announcement about it from the FSF early in January (they were asking for more developers, if anyone's interested), but haven't heard anything about it since. Is it more or less mature than swf-player? -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:06:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. It seems I was wrong: I just removed swf-player completely (aptitude also removed a few other 'unused' packages with that removal), re-started Firefox, and the CPU Load problem still persists: You can verify it here: http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/index.html Just loaded that page with galeon and it takes 65% of the cpu. But at least it doesn't screw up. Leaving that pages (which makes sense in any case :-) lets galeon return to normal behavior. In short: The page above eats a huge load of my CPU no matter whether swf-player is installed or not ... There's obviously something else that's wrong ... Is there an swf animation on that page at all? Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Fleyer Str. 196, 58097 Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +2331 840446Fax: +2331 843920 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:04:01AM -0500, Mike Small wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. Another way of handling this would be to use the noscript plugin. It will let you disable flash (or javascript) generally, but it has a handy icon to enable it for an individual site. Thanks a lot for letting me know about it: I just installed the plugin to Firefox, and it really seems to help ... :) So you could generally avoid it, but if there was some site you really wanted to try you could turn it on and see if swf-player works for it. On this topic, has anyone tried Gnash? After a quick apt-cache search .. it does not seem to be available for Debian(, yet?). Same here: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=namessubword=1version=allrelease=allkeywords=gnash Thanks again :) Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:23:53PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:06:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:47:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. I made the experience that it sometimes works but in most cases doesn't. Recent versions in sid has improved the situation but it still kills my web browser way to often. Same here, on unstable: I already was considering removing swf-player completely from the system, because of these at times really ugly crashes of Firefox: Firefox in these instances is eating around 85-90% of the CPU after, IINM, swf-player has been loaded. It seems I was wrong: I just removed swf-player completely (aptitude also removed a few other 'unused' packages with that removal), re-started Firefox, and the CPU Load problem still persists: You can verify it here: http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/index.html Just loaded that page with galeon and it takes 65% of the cpu. But at least it doesn't screw up. Leaving that pages (which makes sense in any case :-) ... it looks like, yes ... :) lets galeon return to normal behavior. In short: The page above eats a huge load of my CPU no matter whether swf-player is installed or not ... There's obviously something else that's wrong ... Is there an swf animation on that page at all? I doubt it: A ps ax | grep -i swf didn't show anything about swf-player But the nosccript plugin in Firefox tells me there are 4 (!) sites on this one single page trying to start scripts ... So this might explain the CPU load perhaps ... Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:12:00PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: But the nosccript plugin in Firefox tells me there are 4 (!) sites on ^ Should say: noscript Sorry about that .. Wolfgang this one single page trying to start scripts ... So this might explain the CPU load perhaps ... Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:01 -0500, Mike Small wrote: On this topic, has anyone tried Gnash? I got an announcement about it from the FSF early in January (they were asking for more developers, if anyone's interested), but haven't heard anything about it since. Is it more or less mature than swf-player? I tried compiling Gnash from CVS a while ago, and it generally did not work. I should try again really soon because its development is proceeding at a rapid pace. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
I've installed the swf-player package on Debian, and I no longer see the missing plugin icon on pages. However I still don't see the content, I only see a blank field where there should be content. Is there something else that I need to set? I've installed the package from stabel sarge. Thanks, Terry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Shockware Flash Plugin for Mozilla work on powerpc arch?
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something else that I need to set? a x86 ? Flash player is known not to work well, especially on sarge. I don't know how it is on sid, though. -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
