Flash on Breezy PPC

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:22:18 -0500
"Scott J. Henson" <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:

> Brian Puccio wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 04:56 +0200, Eduard Grebe wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Macromedia does not make available a flash player for Linux PPC. Does
> >>anyone know of a way to view flash content in a mozilla based browser
> >>such as firefox on Breezy PPC?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >There is a GPL flash player as well as plugin and it is a PPC binary
> >available, but since I don't have a Mac, I can't tell you if it works or
> >not.
> >
> >http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/libflash-mozplugin
> >  
> >
> It generally does not.  In my experience it actually makes things 
> worse.  High CPU usage, crashy browser.  I had it installed for a while 
> but eventually it was too much.  I mean it couldn't even play Strong Bad 
> emails, so it had to go. 

I tried the GPL flash plugin on my iBook G4. It didn't stay installed for
long - although it was mildly entertaining to watch Firefox disappear in a
puff of smoke every time I accessed any flash content ;-)


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