@John S. Gruber:
Great find in the Adobe "bugbase"! Thank you!!
Your experience matches mine exactly, and it all seems to be caused by Adobe
using SSE2 instructions.
As the initial bug reporter
(https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034) writes, the flash
plugin from Google Chrome
Same problem for me.
Downgraded to the previous version by extracting libflashplayer.so from the deb
archive:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/11.1.102.63-0lucid1/+build/3260786/+files/adobe-flashplugin_11.1.102.63-0lucid1_i386.deb,
replacing the existing /usr/lib/adobe-fla
I see exactly the same behavior as described by fejes, in comment #105, on my
Jaunty and Intrepid installations - both with the 5.10.91.9 version Broadcom
driver.
(BTW, as far as I can tell, it seems to be worse than it was with the previous
version.)
Broadcom hasn't responded to bug reports, t