Flash-10.2 found that Crashtastic
If you experienced a lot of crashes, have if you try accessing recently on pages with Flash content, and you have therefore questions, take solace in the fact that it is not specifically a Linux problem. Windows users have had the same problem, and it with the latest version of the Flash plugin. Fortunately, it's easy enough to get around.
At the time of writing, the Adobe Forum is full of reports of the crash, and it seems to have a Windows and Linux versions of the plugin. The situation is somewhat annoying, because many of us encouraging established a pop up prompt us get, to make an updated version of the plugin which has proven to be unreliable.
The reports on the Adobe Forum show that we one more, can as usually the player only until a message appears that crashed. In this case should reload of the page all be that necessary is working to make things again. Outside of the Linux land the faulty plugin regularly down in the browser, and in some cases brings apparently, the entire machine. Occasionally, the Linux version can cause that browser crashes, but I was unable to bring any reports of it to search the whole system down. It may seem surprising that a mere browser plugin could result in instability of the system, but apparently cause, which fixes the new version of hardware acceleration in a different way. It is always a risk for this kind of thing happens, if a high level program to interact directly with a low level driver. There were reports of the problem which both NVIDIA and ATI Chipset equipped machines.
I was able in my own experiments, provoke by opening several tabs the crashing behavior containing the flash content. You could limit the effect by running flash blocking plugin like such as FlashBlock in combination with the excellent FlashVideoReplacer.
The easiest solution is probably the back to version 10.01 now be restored. If you have installed it manually, need to locate an older version of the installation file. If this is not the case, usually you can your choice of package manager to restore a previous version. The synaptic is the "force version..." option in the "package" pull-down menu option.
Happy flashing, people.
______________________UK based free writer Michael Reed http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ geek culture and gender policy writes about technology, retro computing. His byline appeared in multiple technology publications.
