Re: What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

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What version of netscape-flash to use with konq...
\ Robin Atwood (5 May 2008)
. \ Volker Armin Hemmann (5 May 2008)
. . \ Robin Atwood (5 May 2008)
. . . \ Volker Armin Hemmann (5 May 2008)
. \ Alex Schuster (5 May 2008)
. . \ Robin Atwood (6 May 2008)
. \ Mike Williams (6 May 2008)
. . \ Robin Atwood (7 May 2008)
. . . \ Mike Williams (7 May 2008)
. . . . \ Robin Atwood (8 May 2008)
. \ Liviu Andronic (7 May 2008)
. . \ Mick (8 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Mick
Date:	8 May 2008

On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood> wrote:
> > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE
> > 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with
> > embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got
> > broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using
> > netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been
> > removed. So what version are people using?
>
> Oh, I think you're in trouble here, and on the verge to switch to
> Opera. From one of Opera's developers:
>
> "with 9.2x only Flash version 9.0.48.0 will
> work, because in the subsequent releases Flash depended on being in a Gtk
> browser on linux/unix (this also broke Flash in Konqueror). This Gtk
> environment was created in the pluginwrapper in 9.5, but since 9.2x is
> stable this was too big a change for it. This has, however, been in 9.5
> snapshots for a while now - please check out the Beta2 and see if that
> resolves your issues:
>
> http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/"

Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc
iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951.
--
Regards,
Mick