Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Ned Slider > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin > > On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >> Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on >> Centos 5.7

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on > Centos 5.7 32 bit please? > I have the latest 32-bit flash-plugin from the Adobe repo installed and running on 64-bit 5.8 (latest) with 32-bit Firefox from the distro (I run 32-bit FF and plu

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 12:31 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Is there not a free alternative to Adobe's flash plugin > please? > I haven't tried them myself, but I think both Gnash and Lightspark aim to be open source replacements for Adobe Flash. I think one of them even works well enough to play YouTube v

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: *snip* >>> That's a bad idea. Unpatched critical vulnerabilities in Flash (along >>> with Java) is one of the most likely routes of infection of your machine >>> and not updating it is asking for trouble. >> >> >> In general yes, but afaik flash player 10.3 is

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 11:39, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: >> On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: >>> >>> I've also added exclude=flash-plugin to the end >>> of /etc/yum.conf file, to make sure this does not get >>> upgraded again. >>> >> >> That's a bad idea. Unpatched c

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: > On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: >> I finally found the answer here: >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414 >> >> I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183 >> from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :) >> >> I've also

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: > I'm running Centos 5.7 32 bit with Firefox 10.0.5 ESR > > Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but the > latest version of Adobe flash-plugin 11.2.202 has a bug > which causes it to hang and not play SWF files. > > I've been pulling my hair