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Re: [LUG] Flash 9 beta

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Now I know not everyone is a fan of Flash, but for those of you who are 
> you might be interested to know that Adobe Flash Player 9 has been 
> released.  There is a Mozilla plugin and a standalone player avaliable 
> here: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html 
> (Click Go get it).
> 
> I tried the plugin with Firefox and it seems to work okay.
> 
> To install it I untar'd the tar.gz file and copied the libflashplayer.so 
> to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and also to my user Firefox plugins 
> directory (~/.mozilla/plugins) although thinking about it now it would 
> have probably just have been easier to create a link.
> 
> Just thought I'd mention it.  As I said above, not everyone will be 
> interested as it's non-free but it's possible that some of you folks 
> might not have heard about it and would want to give it a try?
> 
> Rob

Have they got it working nicely with ALSA yet?  I'm a little sick of 
having to run my browser through AOSS if I want sound.  How long has 
ALSA been around?  How long has it been the default audio-output method 
in Linux?

Grant.

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