Comments on: Goodbye, Flash

By: omg swfdec ftw! « Motho ke motho ka botho

omg swfdec ftw! « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:39:32 +0000

[...] now you have two options (swfdec and gnash) for dodging Adobe’s plan to take over the Internet. Don’t say I didn’t warn [...]

By: Daniel Aleksandersen

Daniel Aleksandersen — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:04:15 +0000

I have not used Flash for three months. I have only missed it once or twice. Mostly for movie trailers and websites with very bad Flash‐only navigation.

By: CoachDANNY

CoachDANNY — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:09:05 +0000

I need to read up on this a bit more. I got flash to work just fine by installing the version from their site. It seems the MD5 Checksums for flash in the repos were reading the sum for the previous version -though I might not be understanding that either:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/12/31/why-cant-ubuntu-install-adobe-flash-player-anymore/

I followed the fix here, and everything was fine.

I’d love to support gnash, especially since it seems to work on ppc versions, but I need flash for some of my schoolwork. I can’t afford for it to not work at the moment. Vendor lockin sux.

By: boromil

boromil — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:53:50 +0000

try swfdec – http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/

By: JiGGaK

JiGGaK — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:17:56 +0000

Event though Flash works in Firefox, I find my 1.something gigahertz system chewing up all kinds of processing power when I load a page with lots of flash movies. There is however a handy little plugin called flashblock. It takes a pessimistic approach and blocks all flash content and puts a placeholder where the movie is. You can then just play the flash movie you want manually. Of course this doesn't solve any security issues, the issue of performance, or compatibility with Konqueror but it makes the whole experience a bit more tolerable imho.