Move to edgy

[Dion LeBlanc]

On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:54, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

> > David who unless he can figure out how to fix flash will be going back to
> > debian or Fedora
>
> Why not just step back to dapper?  I know Flash worked in Dapper, unless
> you're talking about the flash 9 beta.  Then I'd tell ya' your probably
> going to have the same crash problems with firefox no matter what distro
> you use.
>

  I had considered that but it was last resort for me. Actually I have found 
the fix and so far fingers crossed no crashes. I have installed the ff2 
tar.gz and flash beta 9, but I have added this to the start of the firefox 
script in /usr/bin
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1



> However, I agree with you on the .hidden thing.  That is one STUPID
> "feature". I'd think they'd want to create a package quite in a hurry that
> would do away with that, and redo the iso images and get rid of that as
> well.  I think it was a VERY unwelcome feature to say the least.  I haven't
> heard of anyone who likes it.  Especially considering that in Firefox you
> have that CRAPPY dialog box that forces you to browse to the /usr/bin
> directory to find "xine" or "mplayer" (or whatever other app for whatever
> other file you want to use for an example) for some files.  The problem
> being you can't because you can't see /usr.

  Actually I find that a good feature ie the dialog box, it means you choose 
the app you want for certain files. So to the person/s who decided on 
the .hidden idea, it isn't a good feature and unless you want a mass exodus 
of users to other distros get rid of it.