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
[...] You regularly have problems with flash player crashing on Linux, like this. 2. You would be prepared to pay for commercial adobe on software (e.g. flex [...]
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.