On 15 September 2010 23:08, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Niels Mayer wrote: > >> Who knows, maybe someone figured out a way to 'sploit flash, and >> combine it with this >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/ >> so Adobe pulled it until they could fix the flash part. :-) >> >> I for one didn't like running the pulled-by-adobe 64 bit flash >> binaries long after their time was up, so i'm glad to finally update. > > I used to use the 64 bit Adobe flash plugin, but when they yanked > it, I started using Gnash (version 0.8.8 in Debian Testing). > > The Gnash plugin works for Youtube (one of the main valid uses > for Flash) but doesn't work with Vimeo and a couple of others. > > The Gnash CPU load is a bit higher that the Flash plugin but I > use it with the FlashBlock firefox plugin: > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/ > > so that is rarely a problem. The FlashBlock plugin also has the > advantage of disabling all that crappy Flash web advertising. For > any Flash object on a page I actually want to watch I can re-enable > just by clicking on it. I prefer NoScript, which has the advantage of blocking everything except HTML (which is also its disadvantage) - or it can do - it works by allowing/disallowing websites - <massive exaggeration>it's then you discover there's about fifty different websites tracking your movements every time your view a single page.</massive exaggeration> James. > HTH, > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
