[ale] Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta

[Jim Philips]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 08:31:40 am Joshua Chase wrote:
> This is awesome. Thanks for sending out the update. I Will be giving it a
> shot today.
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> > In case you missed it... Adobe has release a Beta of Flash Player v10.
> >  It seems to improve on some of the Firefox hangs when visiting sites
> > that use Flash.
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> >
> > FWIW, I don't use their installer, I just put libflashplayer.so into
> > ~/.mozilla/plugins/ and restart FF.  Obviously make sure that you
> > remove any other copy of libflashplayer.so that might be on your
> > system (check /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/, etc.)
> >
> > -Jim P.


I used it for a couple of days to answer the all important question: Does it 
make my browser crash less often? And my take was that Firefox crashed even 
more often with the new Flash. Maybe they'll fix some of that before it gets 
out of beta.