firefox and flash

nex_tym · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 211

Every since firefox .8 flash is really bad. Pratically useless. Swtiched over to epiphany and is normal (normal for linux at least)

anyone else seeing this?

AresTheImpaler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 143

i had the same problems, until I re-emerged flash... maybe that will fix it...

tristure · Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 270 Location: France

I have no problems at all with flash and firefox.

To install flash player plugin, I did the following :
downloaded the tar.gz on the macromedia site (you have a link displayed on screen if you haven't the plugin installed yet).

untar it and run the installer. Then you have a choice between mozilla installation and netscape installation. If you choose mozilla installation, you will have a flash plugin file in your ~/.mozilla/plugins folder.
Copy this file in the firefox configuration folder (it must be ~/.phoenix/plugins if I recall correctly).
Then launch firefox again. it should work.

These explanations are approximative because I'm not at my box right now, so i can't check the exact procedure and folders names, but you have the general idea.

Hope this helps.

nex_tym · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 211

you could just type

emerge netscape-flash

for next time. My problem was flash was very slow. Last time I had over 10 tabs open and firefox was open for several hours. After closing and having no tabs it worked fine.

thanks

cbr · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

It's a Flash known bug imho. Still hasn't been fixed

It was also present in Firebird, Mozilla etc.

TheGrudge · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject:

I think it has to do with firefox, because when I start konqueror with the netscape-flash-plugin, it works fine, but firefox is too slow...
and firebird worked fine before...
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Ateo · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

I've noticed some out of sync issues. But it's random. For the most part, flash plug-in for my firefox install works pretty good.

luqas · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

Go download flashfix

http://wintrmute.net/software/

Extract and the type make in the directory it was extracted to.
Copy flashfix to the plugins directory (/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins)
cd /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins
./flashfix

I had to do this to get flash to work correctly on one machine.

cbr · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

Even with flashfix, flash games etc. lag like hell! And that really pisses me off! :evil:

What kind of a god damn bug is it? Mozilla-side or Macromedia-side? Either way, Flash is so widely-spread over the web, so it's in the best interests in the developers themselves to make it work! In Windows I experiance no lag. In Linux, it's like i've landed behind a 286 when I try to use flash. :evil: