Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Plugin for Linux

Dennis J. dennisml at conversis.de
Tue Nov 18 20:59:41 UTC 2008


On 11/18/2008 08:52 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Dennis J.<dennisml at conversis.de>  wrote:
>> The problem is that nspluginwrapper actually can make problems worse. For me
>> flash on it's own works perfectly fine but as soon as I wrap it I often get
>> the "grey box of death". In fact I used to blame the various problems I had
>> on flash when they were really nspluginwrappers fault.
>
> Works perfectly fine? Or appears to work perfectly fine?  What if
> flash is behaving badly and doing something...not malicious..but wrong
> and potentially damaging...that nspluginwrapper stops?

I'm not saying that using nspluginwrapper is a bad idea but the current 
implementation doesn't work very well. How does introducing a well known 
problem provide a good solution to preventing a potential one?

Regards,
   Dennis




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