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Gnash

Posted May 16, 2008 13:22 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Gnash by tajyrink
Parent article: Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

I installed the gnash plugin. Got into a flash-enabled site. Got a separate 100% CPU process
that eats some 160MB of memory for each flash window. 

It is mostly good for displaying adds. and not much more. Thus in the mean time I have no
flash player installed on my system.


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Gnash

Posted May 16, 2008 15:30 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

I've seen that before, but the 0.8.3 pre-release I referred to has behaved relatively nicely
so far, with the notable exception of Google Analytics.

Anyway, I used to have no flash player, but have now had Gnash installed for a while. But
indeed there has been a need to killall gtk-gnash on some sites, hopefully it's going to be
soon over.

It does display many company sites properly for me, probably because if there is any sense
left in a company first of all producing home pages in Flash, they choose to stay at Flash 7
level for compatibility.

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