[Opera-Linux] latest flashplayer not working in 9.26

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Klonk Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:16:22 +0100 veschprigt mroktar "Claudio Santambrogio" <csant at opera.com> [re: Re: [Opera-Linux] latest flashplayer not working in 9.26]:

>The latest Flash player does not run in anything but Firefox/Mozilla,  
>since it assumes that all browsers are GTK applications.  That of
>curse will not work for both Opera and Konqueror, which are Qt
>applications.  See
>	http://my.opera.com/csant/blog/2007/12/04/linux-opera-flash-and-plugins
>We have managed to solve this in the 9.5 development snapshots, but  
>unfortunately a backport to 9.2x releases is not possible.

To clarify the tone of this post - I *love* Opera and have been using it since I discovered it around version 2.x, back when I still ran Windars. I've come to accept the FP crash bug as a sort of Dwight-Schrute-esque companion in my workspace - not enough to make me quit, but definitely terribly annoying.

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This has been an issue for LONG since before Opera 9.x / FP current. I think it is inaccurate to blame it on the 'lastest Flash player' not running on 'anything but Firefox/Mozilla'. It may be that current FP doesn't work in current Opera, but let's not forget that operapluginwrapper is CRASH-A-DELIC using many versions of both Opera AND FP [Opera 8.x, 9.x; FP back to 7.x].

The issue of operapluginwrapper crashing all open instances of FP with the unload of any single instance, as I said in a previous post, has been an issue for /years/ of versions of both Opera and FP, and across multiple linux platforms/installations; from Slackware to Mandrake/iva to Ubuntu.

For almost as long, there has been the issue of Opera crashing and completely locking, and pegging the CPU untill a kill signal's received. This is such a regularly occurring bug that we keep track the number of times Opera pegs CPU to 100% and takes a killall. It's become /comedy/ in my office amongst co-workers. My LOWEST daily record is one. It relates to 'right clicking too fast when Opera's not ready for it' - that's as far as we can track it down - so while it's /regular/ and /reproducible/, it's not quite /on cue/....

It would be, like, totally groovy if these ancient bugs were finally smashed.

--mp