flash-plugin crashing after update

Discussion:

Barry Cisna

2012-11-09 11:54:11 UTC

Hello All,

CentOS 6.3 32-bit
SL 6.1 client root

Wanted to get opinions on the latest flash-plugin crashing quite
frequently. I am usually one to go with the thought of "if it isn't
broke leave it alone".
I decided to pull down the latest,greatest flash-plugin , from rpmforge
11.2.202.238.0.2.el6.rf
,,,about two weeks ago.
Now quite often when students view Youtubes mainly( My thought is
students should not have Youtube access,anyway) in a matter of time the
viewing window shows 'flash-plugin has crashed".
Only way to get going is a TC reboot.
I am going to go back to the initial version of flash-plugin I plopped
on these servers at the offset.

Also my thought is i should stick with the real epel release versioning
stuff versus rpmforge builds of rpms.

Has anyone else been experiencing these crashes is what I would like to
know,just out of curiosity.

Thank You,
Barry

Jim Kinney

2012-11-09 13:05:57 UTC

Permalink

Repos I've found consistent with CentOS are EPEL and rpmfusion. I only use
rpmforge as src.rpm location for oddball stuff I rebuild. Adobe has a repo
for flash that works well.

Flash is a heavy resource hog in a TC environment. Look at doing network
bandwidth throttling to youtube to enforce practical limits.

Post by Barry Cisna
Hello All,
CentOS 6.3 32-bit
SL 6.1 client root
Wanted to get opinions on the latest flash-plugin crashing quite
frequently. I am usually one to go with the thought of "if it isn't
broke leave it alone".
I decided to pull down the latest,greatest flash-plugin , from rpmforge
11.2.202.238.0.2.el6.rf
,,,about two weeks ago.
Now quite often when students view Youtubes mainly( My thought is
students should not have Youtube access,anyway) in a matter of time the
viewing window shows 'flash-plugin has crashed".
Only way to get going is a TC reboot.
I am going to go back to the initial version of flash-plugin I plopped
on these servers at the offset.
Also my thought is i should stick with the real epel release versioning
stuff versus rpmforge builds of rpms.
Has anyone else been experiencing these crashes is what I would like to
know,just out of curiosity.
Thank You,
Barry
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William Fragakis

2012-11-09 22:50:24 UTC

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hoping that I don't get a deluge of spam like I did after my last
response...

latest flash version in the adobe repo: 11.2.202.251
adobe's url in my yum config files:
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/

other options:
Chrome has it's own version of flash built-in. Sometimes it behaves
better.

Later versions of firefox can run youtube in html5 mode.

You may have to go outside of the regular repos

http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/English-site-introduction

install tutorial:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

I've used remi in the past when EL versions of Firefox lagged pretty
badly.

regards,
William

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Repos I've found consistent with CentOS are EPEL and rpmfusion. I only use
rpmforge as src.rpm location for oddball stuff I rebuild. Adobe has a repo
for flash that works well.
Flash is a heavy resource hog in a TC environment. Look at doing network
bandwidth throttling to youtube to enforce practical limits.

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