Re: Adobe Flash only works sometimes

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
>
>> Lonni J Friedman:
>>>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin
>>>> installed.
>>>>  For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc).
>>>> However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all.
>>>> When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white
>>>> square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty
>>>> error that I need to install Flash.
>>
>>
>> Amadeus W.M.:
>>> I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it.
>>> CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any
>>> video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list.
>>> However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it
>>> eventually plays.
>>
>> I get the same with youtube.  Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then
>> vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed
>> to kick it back into working.  Occasionally, the failure will happen
>> part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and
>> reloading required.  Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed,
>> but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid
>> webmasters doing stupid tests.  And there are a few sites where the
>> player just never works.
>>
>> Perhaps related:  If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab
>> while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above
>> manner).
>>
>> I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
>>
>> --
>> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
>>
>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
>> read messages from the public lists.
>
> How about these sites:
>
> https://www.citicards.com/
> http://www.dbfx.com

I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work ok.


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