[OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash Plugin using older one

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 15/07/2013 22:18, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 15/07/2013 21:11, Jon Tibble wrote:
>> On 14/07/2013 19:20, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>> On 09/07/2013 16:51, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>>> On 09/07/2013 16:12, Paolo Marcheschi wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I found a workaround for flash plugin in order to see youtube and
>>>>> other flash sites,
>>>>> I used the archived flashplayer10_1r53_64_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 from
>>>>> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp10.1_archive.zip
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> remove the newest plugin, and  copy the old one in .mozilla/plugins
>>>>> folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> use the r53 instead of the r82, because the r82 does not work on
>>>>> other sites (i.e. grooveshark)
>>>>> to avoid activate the plugin every time follow this guide:
>>>>> http://mzl.la/R7DD9y
>>>>>
>>>>> I Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It does, thanks for the research. Actually, the 10.1r53 was the most
>>>> "stable" working horse of crashplayer before we switched to 11.1.
>>>> Of course, that version is also "vulnerable", as far as this has
>>>> any practical relevance on non-Windows systems...
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> No it does not, the r53 is actually a r82 (they don't archive severely
>>> vulnerable versions, but overwrite them silently). Instead of youtube,
>>> most videos on Dailymotion are now broken, and in general this version
>>> is very unstable. Did a check on later versions, but none of them
>>> work with hipster.
>>> So this problem is not fixed with that workaround, just shifted around.
>>>
>>
>> I found a version that works with FF19 and FF22 (22 had other issues
>> like non-collapsing right-click menus) but it's at work so will post
>> tomorrow.  Did work for youtube and last.fm though.
>>
>
> Just a tip: When you test on Dailymotion, let it run a while,
> what I found it that it starts stuttering and then stops after
> a while with the r82 version, so problems are not seen immediately.
>
>

This is stranger than I thought: Sometimes, the 11.1 plugin works
even on youtube, then at one instance decides to crash, and crashes
on every video (even those which worked shortly before!) afterwards.

This looks like it depends on some libraries loaded in different
versions or order sometimes (or on some libraries loaded for some
codecs), and then stay in memory.
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