[ltp] flash 9 linux released

Andrew Barr linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:25:20 -0500


On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 06:55 -0600, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
> On 17 January 2007, at 11:56, Andrew Barr wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:57 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/01/ 
> >> flash_player_9_for_linux_x86.html
> >
> > I am waiting for Gnash, personally. The Flash 9 player, at least the
> > beta, is a PITA (one that I'm not willing to deal with) on AMD64,  
> > if it
> > will work at all; what's more, because of the asinine design decisions
> > on the part of Adobe, there is _no_ hardware acceleration used, and
> > while they manage impressive performance despite that, it causes my
> > Thinkpad R51 (1.6 GHz P-M with 768 MB RAM) to seize up every time
> > something _other_ than the playing Youtube (or whatever) video  
> > grabs the
> > CPU's attention--incoming message in Gaim, for example.
> 
> That's not good. Mine doesn't do that. (I DO have 1gB RAM, but  
> otherwise we have identical systems.)
> What browser do you use?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205
Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Debian Iceweasel/2:2.0.0.1+dfsg-2)

It is a self-compiled version of the Debian package with two
changes--the product name is "Web Browser" instead of Iceweasel (I got
tired of seeing that almost everywhere) and the user agent is tweaked so
that it is detected as Firefox.