flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

[Joel Rees]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 04/14/2012 09:11 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>> With the old flash plugin, youtube works fine.
>>
>>> > May put
>>> > flash in one account on the box I'm using here, to see if it's perhaps
>>> > a CPU or other hardware issue but not now.
>> Okay, the current flash plugin and yesterdays both work on this box. Except that
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GpxCUg9Vo
>>
>> (heart playing heartless on TV back in the 70s) doesn't.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03S9o4sFxE
>>
>> B52s playing Roam, does play.
>>
>> html5 setting doesn't make any difference on this box, either.
>>
>> This box is a netbook with the accursed Intel Atom N455, 32 bit
>> fedora. That box is AMD Sempron 2600, all 32 bit.
>>
>> Guess I need to file a bug somewhere.

(Specifically, with Adobe, not Fedora.)

> I am unable to follow what you are doing.  I thought there was one box...your
> daughter's.  Now there are 2.  This and that.

Well, I'd blame it on my age, but several members of the list trump me
on that. 8-P My wife tells me I've always been hard to follow. :-<

There was one box, and then there are two. That is, since I'm having
problems on the one box, I thought I'd see what happens on the other.

> FWIW, both of those URLs you cite play just fine under F16/Firefox/HTML5 on my Intel
> i5 system.

I seem to be missing support for HTML5 somewhere. But I'm not really
looking to fix that just now.

>  As I said, and as Sam has also pointed out, there really is no reason to
> mess with the tar file.  Nobody I know jumps through hoops longer.

Same thing as using sudo and xhost to sandbox FF without depending on
SELinux. I don't follow the crowed.

Here are my reasons for not enabling the repository and yumming the thing:

(1) I don't care to have lots of repositories enabled. Not for mpeg
stuff, not for Adobe.

(2) I don't want to have to use Adobe's settings tools to disable
Flash in my admin and banking accounts. I only want Flash to run in
the account the kids surf from and the account I sometimes use for
testing those kinds of things. I suppose I could

Yeah, I'm baroque enough to have separate accounts for surfing, work,
admin, and money. And I don't surf in bad water, either. A former
co-worker bragged about how much malware he had to remove from his PC,
back in the days of MSW95. I'm kind of the opposite.

I've seen hints that I could use yum or RPM locally to the two users
in question, I suppose I should nose around for more on that sometime.

> Good luck.
>
> --
> Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke
> of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage

Heh.

--
Joel Rees