Re: Flash crashes galore ...

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:21 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:14 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > Hi Kiffin,
> > 
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> > 
> > > I use epiphany-1.8.3_2 on FreeBSD 6.0 under gnomedesktop-2.12.2 and have
> > > the aggravating problem with the browser crashing regularly on pages
> > > containing flash etc.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, Mozilla isn't able to protect against plugin 
> > malfunctions, so if Flash crashes it will take the entire browser with 
> > it. The relevant bug is 
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156493.
> > 
> > > What is the best advice to get this fixed?
> > 
> > The best advice is to not use the Flash plugin at all, I'm afraid. :-(
> 
> Alright then, do I need to disable the plugin or must I deinstall the
> package altogether?

Search the list archives for "click to play", I can't believe I ever
lived without it.  It will save you a LOT of CPU cycles too.

It seems that web sites are moving to all Flash ads - I wonder if this
is related to "Block all images from this site" in Firefox not working
on Flash ads.

BTW, why doesn't Epiphany have "Block all images from this site" yet?

Lee