As I said, Roger, not everyone has this problem. I have had this same
problem on this particular hardware combination from at least FC7
onwards. I'm guessing it may be a problem with interaction with the
proprietary nvidia driver and Firefox? I have a 6200 nvidia card. I
also had the same issue with FC11 on an IBM/Lenovo laptop I had; I think
that machine had integrated Intel video. My brother in law has a box
running FC10 with an ATi 7500 and he DOESN'T have this problem at all.
Hugh
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:42 +1100
From: Roger<arelem(a)bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: Linux problems with Flash in Firefox
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On 10/24/2009 12:37 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
> > Hi, Julian. Thanks for the post, but I guess I didn't make it clear:
> > this is a well known problem with using Firefox and Flash. It's
> > definitely not a problem with Firefox being big or using a lot of
> > RAM. Not everyone has this problem, but there are lots of filed bugs
> > with both Mozilla and Adobe about it. And every time I've asked about
> > it, I've been told that it's a Flash problem, not a Firefox problem,
> > and I just don't think that's true.
> >
> > Hugh
>
This Firefox / Flash problem has me curious.
I've never had a problem with flash in firefox, except for being not
easy to install.
But that's a security issue I believe.
But once up and running I have never had difficulties you write about.
I've had to install the combination probably 30 times over the past few
years on several computers.
I have used F3 right through to F12 on fairly standard clones.
Roger
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