Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
> 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).
This sounded really promising. I was going to try it.
But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in
Linux. Still works fine in Windows.
Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid.
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