Subject: Re: Flash plugin for NetBSD Firefox testers wanted
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2007 10:24:32
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:09:10 +0000 (GMT)
David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:18:31PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> >> OK. I wonder if its an newlock2 issue or a more general
> >> compat_linux breakage. Could you file a PR?
> >
> > the linux firefox binary is this unstable with flash as long as i
> > can remember (which means for years), at least for me.
> 
>  	OK, though we are seeing a number of people finding it
> working well under NetBSD-4, and every under 4.99.15 finding it
> crashes very quickly, so it appears that something has changed...
> 
This is *much* worse than flash with firefox-bin under 3.1, or under
-current as of a few months ago.  In fact, it's unusable.  Go to
youtube.com, watch almost anything, and it will probably die within a
minute.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb