Good ol' Flash player problems on 8.04.1 amd64 with kubuntu

[Jussi Schultink]

On 7/13/08, Jussi Schultink <jussi01 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/08, Gerald I. Evenden <geraldi.evenden at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Browsing though the [k]ubunto web pages I do not find anything beyond 7.x
>  >  dealing with getting Adobe's Flash onto Firefox, etc..  Does one follow the
>  >  instructions for Dapper or what?  The web is getting slightly dated.
>  >
>  >  I wish Adobe would stop being such an a--hole and get a 64 machine going.  It
>  >  shouldn't be that tough.
>  >
>  >  A minor unrelated complaint is giving "names" to the various released.  Just
>  >  plain old 1.2.3 thank-you.
>  >
>  >  Thanks for any comments on the flash player problem.
>  >
Seems I didnt read your problem correctly, but anyway, the info may be
useful. For installing flash on a 64 bit machine, take a look here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava

BR

Jussi

>
>
> From the Ubuntu-devel list:
>
>  "Since there doesn't seem to be a policy defined anywhere on how to
>  deal with regressions in backports, I figured it wouldn't hurt to send
>  an e-mail to ubuntu-devel to help ensure the proper folks can take
>  action.The recent flashplugin-nonfree backport causes Firefox to
>  become unstable as the plugin is causing a crash when users visit a
>  number of popular websites that take advantage of the technology. This
>  renders some websites competely inaccessible and users who frequent
>  primarily websites that use flash may find their ability to do so
>  almost completely crippled although due to the popularity of flash
>  ads, banners, and widgets, almost all users will experience frequent
>  crashes regardless of their browsing habits.
>
>  The master bug report can be found at
>  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/247682
>
>  Anyhow, I suppose the first step is blocking the update and getting a
>  fix out. After, we can look at how this happened and what we need to
>  do to reduce the risk of something similiar occuring again.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  --
>  Cody A.W. Somerville"
>
>
>  Hope this helps
>
>  Jussi Schultink
>
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