On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:28 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > 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. > The citicards site flashes a blue login/password rectangle in the upper left corner and some other things, then goes all blank. The dbfx site has an embedded flash that is supposed to show currency prices in real time. That part I can't see, it's all blank. The rest of the page is ok. Incidentally, I uninstalled mozplugger and nspluginwrapper and cnn at least seems to work better. Still having problems with these two sites though. Might be some java thing? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
