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Flash Vs HTML5

Alex — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:48:24 +0000

The Flash Vs HTML5 debate has caused much discussion over the recent months and it certainly got us thinking here at Code. We believe the two technologies are not in competition and each have their purpose, but thought it might be amusing to actually put them in direct competition.

via Flash Vs HTML5.

Flash crashes/hangs Firefox when switching to fullscreen

Alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:08:24 +0000

The best solution/workaround I found is to create an executable script (eg: start_firefox) with the following lines (1, 2):

#!/bin/sh export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" /home/alexb/apps/firefox/firefox
chmod +x start_firefox ./start_firefox

Another solution is to disable the hardware acceleration in Flash (probably a bad solution):

Right click on the embedded Flash window inside Firefox (flash video)
Settings…
go to the first tab
un-check “Enable hardware acceleration”

Now you should be able to go full screen…

Here is the version of the software I was using.

Flash v10,0,15,3
Firefox 3.0.5 and 3.5.2
NVIDIA video driver 180.22
Kernel 2.6.27.7-smp

You know Flash is inefficient when ..

Alex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:55:13 +0000

…DOOM 1, a 15 year old game converted to flash, is jerky on a fairly recent computer.

It’s still worth a try, play now.