On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 08:26 +0100, AG wrote: > > In light of this, which is the best candidate to use: the non-free > mozilla flash plugin or another? >
I don't know whether you're on Lenny or Squeeze or Sid, or whether your running a 64-bit or 32-bit Debian system, so this may not pertain. But ... if you're running 64-bit Squeeze or Sid, you probably will want the 'flashplugin-nonfree' package from the non-free Debian repositories, rather than the 'flashplayer-mozilla' package from the Debian-Multimedia repository. The 'flashplugin-nonfree' package installs the new 64-bit version of flash Adobe has been working on (not sure if it is officially released yet, but it works a treat here). The 'flashplayer-mozilla' package installs the 32-bit version of flash and a whole mess of 32-bit libraries. While that worked for me, it would frequently conk-out and require me to shut-down & restart my browser to get it working again (once in a while, it even crashed Iceweasel, but not very often). 64-bit flash hasn't given me any problems at all. Plus, for now I have no need for the 32-bit libraries and would prefer to avoid them if there's a good alternative. Now, for flash, there is. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
