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Alternative for Adobe Flash users

Posted Sep 19, 2008 18:40 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess by einstein
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Don't know about anyone else but I have replaced Adobe Flash on my main laptop with Gnash. When I started running it this spring, it played YouTube usually, other Flash video sites almost never. Now YouTube always works and other Flash video sites work sometimes. Not ready for Grandma yet, but I'm not a big net video watcher and don't play Flash games much, so close enough for me.

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Posted Sep 20, 2008 10:08 UTC (Sat) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

What about Gnash's speed? Adobe Flash is already incredibly and annoyingly slow, will I have to invest in new hardware to run it? Yes, I still happily use a 500MHz PC...

Alternative for Adobe Flash users

Posted Sep 20, 2008 19:04 UTC (Sat) by jlokier (subscriber, #52227) [Link]

I ran Gnash on my Ubuntu Handy install for a few months - and it worked ok, and played Youtube videos for a while. But after a while it stopped playing Youtube and all other videos - it would just sit there with a spinner.

So I had to remove Gnash and replace it with the original Adobe Flash plugin.

(Unfortunately although there's a straightforward UI from Firefox asking which Flash plugin you'd like to install (I'd picked Gnash), there seemed to be no UI for removing or changing it.)

Disable Flash in the Browser

Posted Sep 25, 2008 13:12 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

Install both and then disable one with Tools/Add-ons/Plugins in Firefox 3?