I used GNASH recently (a month or two ago). I'd like to say it's
usable... it wasn't for me! It just didn't seem to render stuff in the
right places / work properly at all.
A real shame, but I guess it's extremely difficult to reverse engineer
such a mess as flash.
John.
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 11:43 +0000, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote:
> Isaac Close wrote:
> > morning all,
> >
> > For a while i didn't even install the adobe flash plugin as it would
> > almost immediately segfault. Now, its a case of it running ultra slow
> > sometimes locking the machine.
> >
> > Everything else graphics wise appears fine, dvd's etc.
> >
> > Anyone else had issues like this ?
> >
> > Anyone else had a look at GNASH ? i haven't yet had the time to
> > install it on my system, but i think i will ;-)
> >
> > Isaac Close
> >
> >
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> I occasionally have firefox hang on a flash page - no segfault
> reported, it just stops
> responding. It doesn't do this on all pages, flash ads are OK. It
> happens most often on You
> Tube. I haven't noticed any other issues. It seems OK right up to the
> point where it stops.
>
> I haven't tried GNASH. I note that it implements swf v7. It depends if
> this is enough for
> the most websites, and for the ones you use regularly. It claims to
> support You Tube, so
> I may try it.
>
> MikeD
>
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