On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:26 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: > I do definitely get the problem on sites such as youtube; however, I > also get the problem on sites that don't have any obvious flash content, > and frankly, I'm not sure which ones at this point. Flashblock doesn't > seem to catch all of them. Still trying to find out. > > I think it would be a good thing if Fedora and Mozilla/Firefox talked > with Adobe about fixing this. ---- just so you understand that Adobe ships Flash (and of course Adobe Reader and everything else) in what we tend to refer to as a binary blob and thus only they retain the source code. While some of the Adobe software might be free in terms of no cost, they aren't free as in open source and so the only set of eyeballs that ever looks at the program code is theirs. The distinction is a very important one. Adobe has sole responsibility for compatibility as they can download the source code for Mozilla Firefox and fully understand how to implement their software in Firefox. The responsibility completely lies with Adobe and if you are unhappy, you should be complaining to Adobe, not the list. The list might help you with some workarounds but that's going to be as far as it goes. The ultimate solution would be to use the open source variants (perhaps gnash) because then you could participate in the software development. No one from Fedora or Mozilla software development is going to waste their time on Adobe proprietary software that they can't even see the source code to possibly make a knowledgeable suggestion. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
