flash player 9 -don't include it in Feisty

Chris Budden chrisbudden at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 11:37:27 UTC 2007


I have also been using the Flash 9 betas and the final on Edgy, and it
hasn't crashed one me once either.

Chris

On 1/19/07, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/18/07, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I usually don't write to tell stuff like this, but this is just
> > unbearable...
> >
> > I was using Flash 7 & Fx 2 with Dapper and I was very happy. After the
> > release of the interview with Torvalds, I updated to Flash 9 (after it
> > was announced not to be a beta anymore).
> >
> > For the last two days, Fx crashed about every 20 minutes on flash-using
> > sites like youtube. I read about similar experiences with Flash betas at
> > the forums too. Fx never crashed on me before...
> >
> > I would like to ask the devels not to include Flash 9 in our
> > repositories... It is too damn buggy, and it's not worth the bad PR
> > Feisty might get with crashing Firefoxes...
> >
> > Thanks for your patience in reading this
> > Sincerely.
>
>
> I have been using Flash 9 for weeks, with the first 2 beta and now the
> final, with Firefox in Dapper, Edgy, and now Feisty, and I can't
> remember having one single crash due to flash.  And I use it quite
> regularly (i.e, daily) on various online sites.
>
> So I'm not experiencing the type of crashes you are seeing.    I
> wonder what makes some people seeing these crashes, and not others.
> And being a close source plugin, I suspect we'll never know...
>
>
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