Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:28 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84(a)verizon.net>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>
>>> Lonni J Friedman:
>>>>> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash
plugin
>>>>> installed.
>>>>> For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc).
>>>>> However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at
all.
>>>>> When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white
>>>>> square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a
>>>>> nasty error that I need to install Flash.
>>>
>>> Amadeus W.M.:
>>>> I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it.
>>>> CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any
>>>> video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list.
>>>> However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it
>>>> eventually plays.
>>> I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load,
>>> then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be
>>> needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will
>>> happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space
>>> effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have
Flash
>>> installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to
>>> stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where
>>> the player just never works.
>>>
>>> Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab
>>> while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the
>>> above manner).
>>>
>>> I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
>>>
>>> --
>>> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
>>> 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
>>>
>>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
>>> read messages from the public lists.
>> How about these sites:
>>
>>
https://www.citicards.com/
>>
http://www.dbfx.com
> I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work
> ok.
>
The citicards site flashes a blue login/password rectangle in the upper
left corner and some other things, then goes all blank.
If you right click in the blank area you'd see that a "blank flash" is
taking up the entire area.
The dbfx site has an embedded flash that is supposed to show currency
prices in real time. That part I can't see, it's all blank. The rest of
the page is ok.
I believe that live currency is not flash. Mine displays properly and when
I right click there is no indication that it is flash. When I check the
page source (not that I'm any good at that) it looks like a java applet to me.
Incidentally, I uninstalled mozplugger and nspluginwrapper and cnn at
least seems to work better. Still having problems with these two sites
though. Might be some java thing?