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So, I cannot run Flash on my system. It breaks nine out of ten times, gazillion reloads might lead to a single successful video playback and .. I better not tou

So, I cannot run Flash on my system. It breaks nine out of ten times, gazillion reloads might lead to a single successful video playback and .. I better not touch any controls (skip ads, jump acc. to the 'first third is useless on YouTube' rule or anything). I run Shumway from git and it works less reliably than flash so far. I love the idea, but every thing I care about is black/doesn't work unless I right-click and hit 'Fallback to Flash', which works as reliably as I stated in the opening. The case I'm trying to make is 1) it is desperately needed 2) it is far from usable in general, based on mu personal experience I keep it, follow git and try it more or less every day. I hope to remove the crazy Adobe plugin one day.

lbenes 12y ago
From the symptoms you're describing, it sounds like you're using Flash with Firefox on Linux. I had the same issue as you until I switched to Google Chrome. Firefox is stuck at 11.2.202.425, while Chrome is using the latest 16.0.0.235
- darklajid 12y ago
  You are correct, but switching to Chrome is not an option for me. Good to know that this would solve the problem, might be something I'd offer to my wife as a potential workaround. Thanks!
  - keeperofdakeys 12y ago
    Just for a little bit of background, chrome supports a newer api (pepper), and get permission from adobe to package flash themselves. Firefox uses an older api (NPAPI), and adobe are no longer packaging flash for linux in general. So things will not improve, more things will not work in the future.
    - darklajid 12y ago
      I'm not sure if this was targeted at me or the general public. If the former: I was aware of that, but a ~random~ plugin is no reason for me to jump to a different (and ultimately not interesting, from my personal view) browser.