Firefox and Flash

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:29:53PM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > * Tracked down Firefox instability problems to a less-than-perfect
> > scheme to allow the non-free Flash plug-ins sound to work with remote
> > displays.
> 
> is that Bug 29760 [1]?  I'm not sure breaking the sound when using the
> Macromedia flash plugin to go around this problem is going to be a
> very popular solution.

The change only breaks sound from Flash if something else is accessing
/dev/dsp, or if you're running the browser remotely using LTSP or
similar. If neither of those conditions hold, my understanding from Ian
is that sound from Flash will continue to work.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]