Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

[David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>]

Hi Carl,



> It's not just that, though.  Any Flash movie will solidly lock it.  For
> instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops.

  I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree'
package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for
about 30 seconds at a time just using my ISP's webmail interface.  I ended
up holding version 1.6.3 up until a couple of days ago, when I investigated
more carefully and found that 1.7.* switched to using the Debian alternatives
system -- to allow sysadmins to select the particular library which will
provide support for Flash.  See bug report 497385:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=128;bug=497385

  Following the instructions there, I updated to flashplugin-nonfree 1.7.2
using 'aptitude', tested that I still had the problem with freezing (I did),
closed Iceweasel, ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report,

    update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so

then ran Iceweasel again.  The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me
as 1.6.3 ever did.

  I'm not sure this will solve your problem, but I'm hoping it helps you (or
anyone else reading this).


HTH,
Dave W.