Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux Is Available

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/19/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/10/06, fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> >
> > I've already posted this to the bug reporter at adobe:
> >
> > Works nicely for me with Konqueror (on Centos 4.4). Works not so nicely with Firefox 1.5.0.7.
> > Which isn't to say it doesn't work, it's just,... odd. Playing a .swf file
> > on my local hard drive by doing "open | file" in Firefox works fine. Browsing
> > to a web sitre with flash files on it is weird: Firefox gets horirbly slow,
> > has trouble rendering the page fully, may lag for many seconds (or even minutes)
> > before starting the video. Switching to another desktop and back seems to
> > expedite things, but hititng the BACK arrow or attempting to close the browser
> > is also extrmeely slow. Once Flash starts playing, though, flash itself seems
> > to work fine, i t's just the Firefox browser that seems to be very slow.
> >
> > anybody else seen this?
>
> That's what happens to Fx when you have too many extensions installed.
> Which extensions have you?

Define "too many extensions".


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