So I got home this evening and wanted to record my commute with my new logger app, and guess what, it crashes Firefox. Roughly one-in-four loads of the app are successful, other attempts cause a segfault as the player tries to load the SWF. It seems to work better in SeaMonkey, but still not perfect. I know Linux is the "we don't really care" platform for Adobe (and Macromedia before), but I'd almost prefer no player at all to a crashy one. Anyone have any hints?
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I had a similar problem with a flash 8 web2print Application. It's a real shame Adobe haven't invested more time in Linux. With WPF so close behind, making core apps available on Linux may save their skins. Anyway, I'll give this a blast on my Fedora machine tonight and let you know if I have any issues.
Ian
Are you saying that one particular SWF has a 25% failure rate in one particular browser? (Or have you actually generalized the testing already?)
Release Notes:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/9/releasenotes.html
jd/adobe
No problems loading your application in Linux. Gave it a good thrashing too. Two points; 1. I'm using Fedora, who have held back the firefox browser to 1.5 (you could try running 1.5). 2. I wasn't convinced that I had updated all versions of the flash player a while back, even though the installer said I had - so I searched for the so allover my machine (there were about 5 copies) and replaced them all - this guaranteed I was running the latest version (brute force I know).
One last thing, how your tried that standalone player for linux?
Please buzz me on my blog if you have any joy.
Ian
Ian,
I'm running 2.0.0.4 (from Mozilla direct), not the 1.5 that ships with CentOS/RHEL. Perhaps that's part of the issue. I also did some cleanup on the flash plugin itself, manually removing various 7.x versions from all over the place. I haven't tried the standalone player either.
For now, I've just set up a shortcut to a SeaMonkey profile that loads the app by default, and run it that way. Not really idea, but close enough.
John,
Firefox is listed as a supported browser for Flash 9.0.31 on Linux. I haven't gone and done exhaustive testing of other Flash/Flex movies on it. But I don't really care much about other people's apps, I care about the app(s) that I use. ;) Ian indicated that it behaved fine on Firefox 1.5, while I'm running 2.0. Perhaps that's the issue, as the release docs don't specify a version.