[EN] occasional freeze question/observation

[blackone]

Hi

As title, there is the occasional freeze.  This happens with flash-non-free within iceape.  Not as often as with lmde, but is still annoying all the same.

Anyway around this or is part of the debian rolling release unstable extravaganza, therefor to be expected.

cheers and greetz

[towo]

You think, that anyone can help you?
Your post does not have any relevant info about your System!

[arno911]

the problem is well known and has nothing to do with iceape or testing/unstable. this happens occasionally even in m$ windows and it's called

"flash"

greetings
arno911

[blackone]

You think, that anyone can help you?
Your post does not have any relevant info about your System!

I'm sorry.  I had no idea I was being so rude.

@arno911

It maybe a well known problem, and yes, I have heard many complaints about this on the web.  Just seems to mainly plague the testing/unstable of debain - at least for myself.  Works ok with slackware and arch and windows.

[devil]

I'm sorry. I had no idea I was being so rude.

You were not being rude. your post just lacks any information that would be helpfull. like: graphics card, does it work wirh other browsers...
i do not use much flash, but when i have to, it works ok here.

greetz
devil

[der_bud]

blackone, are you aware that flashplugin-nonfree does not automatically gets updated with dist-upgrade? You have to invoke it manually, and sometimes that repairs some glitches. As root, enter

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update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv to get an verbose output (without -v you won't get feedback if available and installed version are the same).

[DeepDayze]

the problem is well known and has nothing to do with iceape or testing/unstable. this happens occasionally even in m$ windows and it's called

"flash"

greetings
arno911

Yup, Flash surely also causes freezes/crashes on Windows (even in IE/FF/Chrome)..not just on Linux in general. As Flash itself is closed source we can't fix it...the Flash alternatives (Gnash and Lightspark) are not quite up to par yet

[GoinEasy9]

Excuse my ignorance, but, is what der_bud said true?  Does flashplugin-nonfree from the contrib repo not get updated automatically with a dist-upgrade?  That's a new one on me.

[devil]

Sure its true, and always was. The file that gets updated is flashplugin-nonfree, but that just pulls the real package.

greetz
devil

[GoinEasy9]

Hmmm, learned something new, Thanks

[blackone]

blackone, are you aware that flashplugin-nonfree does not automatically gets updated with dist-upgrade? You have to invoke it manually, and sometimes that repairs some glitches. As root, enter

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update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv to get an verbose output (without -v you won't get feedback if available and installed version are the same).

No - I had no idea about that at all.  I think its the first time I have heard about this.

But I feel I have to reiterate that I have only had problems with flashplugin-nonfree on testing/unstable branches of debian.

cheers

[devil]

well, we are on unstable. and here flash is fine. but what can i say, asyou do not answer questions?

greetz
devil

[piper]

as root

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ln -s /tmp ~/.macromedia && update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv

[blackone]

as root

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ln -s /tmp ~/.macromedia && update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv

Did that.  Still freezes but not as much - but its to expected I suppose  

[ralul]

Look and try: /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
What I mean, you have 3 options:
-Keep it secure, keep sites freezing
-dont visit these sites
-make your macromedia options more unsecure