Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:13:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. All the files listed by equery are 32-bit. Equery and emerge don't list any USE flags for the package, so how do you get a 64-bit version? Unmask 10.0.20.7* -- Neil Bothwick There are no stupid questions, just too many inquisitive idiots. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:09:46 Paul Hartman wrote: I second the suggestion to move to the 64-bit version of Flash Player (and firefox) and unmerge nspluginwrapper. I have had zero flash problems since then. I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. All the files listed by equery are 32-bit. Equery and emerge don't list any USE flags for the package, so how do you get a 64-bit version? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
On Monday 15 December 2008 10:30:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:13:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. All the files listed by equery are 32-bit. Equery and emerge don't list any USE flags for the package, so how do you get a 64-bit version? Unmask 10.0.20.7* What! A bug-fix release adds a 64-bit version? I would never have expected that. I'll try it anyway - thanks. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. When I want to be kind to Adobe, I say that their Linux support for Flash just sucks. At other times I say ... um, never mind. Adobe Flash sucks on Linux. What you are experiencing happens a lot to a lot of people. What version are you using? I got very good results upgrading to latest v10 even though it's hard masked. And it's 64 bit so I don;t need all that wrapper stuff anymore -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. When I want to be kind to Adobe, I say that their Linux support for Flash just sucks. At other times I say ... um, never mind. Adobe Flash sucks on Linux. What you are experiencing happens a lot to a lot of people. What version are you using? I got very good results upgrading to latest v10 even though it's hard masked. And it's 64 bit so I don;t need all that wrapper stuff anymore I second the suggestion to move to the 64-bit version of Flash Player (and firefox) and unmerge nspluginwrapper. I have had zero flash problems since then. Of course, we don't know if the OP uses 64-bit gentoo or not. Also, if you're using Firefox add-ons such as flashblock or adblockplus, I would try disabling them. Sometimes they interfere in the rendering of the page even when you've whitelisted the site.
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. What version are you using? I got very good results upgrading to latest v10 even though it's hard masked. And it's 64 bit so I don;t need all that wrapper stuff anymore I'm using version 10.0.12.36-r1, Also, if you're using Firefox add-ons such as flashblock or adblockplus, I would try disabling them. Sometimes they interfere in the rendering of the page even when you've whitelisted the site. I don't use flashblock, but *do* use adblockplus. However, I tried disabling adblockplus and that was no help. What I don't understand is why the site would display just fine in Opera, but not in Firefox. And I'm 99% positive that the issue is with flash 'cause if I right-click on the portions of the page that don't display properly in firefox, I get a menu on the bottom of which is About Flashplayer 10. Anyway, thanks for the responses. I'll keep them in mind! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
