Fedora 10 and flash?

Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com
Tue May 27 14:00:01 UTC 2008


2008/5/27 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>:
> Hi, I must share this report with you.
> I don't use Ubuntu but I installed it on one PC in a lab for students
> and kids to learn using it (we have half Fedora and half Ubuntu lab).
> I opened Firefox and went to www.redhatmagazine.com and immediately I
> got a pop up window with a choice to install Adobe Flash, Swhdec or
> Gnash plugin. I was amazed how well this worked and that I had a
> choice to pick any one plugin that I believe it better.
> I know about Fedora's upstream mentality but I must take my hat to
> Ubuntu devels for making their "Ubuntu plugin service" work great. I
> know that this is what Mozilla should have made but with their track
> for supporting linux isn't the best one. And also I see some projects
> that fedora made and didn't wait for the others but fedora and red hat
> devels made them because they were missing (pulseaudio,
> networkmanager, and lots of others...) so does it make sense to you
> that Fedora makes also "Fedor plugin service" for Fedora 10 or do you
> believe that if it is not in Firefox by default than Fedora should not
> touch it in anyway? Why?
>
> Cheers,

The REAL issues are:

* www.redhatmagazine.com uses flash (ads).
* your Ubuntu box doesn't have AdBlock+ installed. You should set it up.


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With best regards!




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