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Flash 9 not crashing

Flash 9 not crashing

Posted May 16, 2008 4:22 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Avoid Flash 10 Beta for Linux - it crashes FIrefox by dowdle
Parent article: Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

Flash 9 usually crashed my browser (either the Firefox 2 series or the 3 beta) several times a day.

I often see complaints like this on Linux forums, and wonder a bit because my own experience with it has not been like this at all. What am I doing wrong? :-) For me, Flash 9 crashes fairly rarely on the two Linux systems I mostly use, 32-bit Centos on a Dell and 64-bit Mandriva on an Asus Vintage barebone. Maybe it is the video chips & drivers? The Dell uses Intel video, the Asus has ATI 9250, the only common theme being they both use only open source video drivers.


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Flash 9 not crashing

Posted May 16, 2008 4:43 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Flash 9 does seem to crash much more often on my work machine, which runs RHEL4 with an nVidia proprietary driver, than on my personal laptop, currently running Fedora 7 with the free radeon driver.

Flash 9 not crashing

Posted May 16, 2008 14:55 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Flash 9 crashed Firefox the first time I used it, and a second time about ten minutes later,
so I uninstalled it and left it alone.  I was hoping version 10 would be better...

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