[Opera-Linux] latest flashplayer not working in 9.26

[Angus Auld]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: klort at hydrophilus.com
> To: opera-linux at opera.com
> Subject: Re: [Opera-Linux] latest flashplayer not working in 9.26
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:26:47 -0800
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> - - -
> 
> 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

Indeed Opera has had a long-standing *issue* with flashplayer, but I don't think 
Opera is alone in this regard. I've noted lockups using Iceweasel (Firefox), 
that *seem* to be flash related as well.
I don't use ms windows any more, so I can't comment on how well, or how 
poorly, flashplayer works there, but I'm wondering if this is maybe a flash vs 
linux thing. 
A lot of websites are very flash-intensive these days, so this is quite annoying 
to say the least. I seem to have *adjusted* my browsing in a manner that I just 
expect to have issues with flash and linux. Any flash videos I view seem to 
consume more cpu cycles than one would expect, and this happens regardless 
of browser choice.
Perhaps my observations are not accurate, but they are my observations 
nonetheless. ;)

I agree that a smooth flash experience would indeed be "totally groovy". :)

-- Angus

"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race, have had their origin in this thing called religion."
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