I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take notice.<\/p>\n
The upgrade went very well and I love the new KDE release. It’s packed with new features, is more stable and performs better than the previous version, and the option of using Webkit as a rendering engine for Konqueror (this post) is awesome.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately there’s a nasty bug in Konqueror that seems to crash it when a flash plugin is loaded. Eg visiting skype.com would crash the browser when the flash video loads. I haven’t tested it with KHTML as I’m too addicted to browsing with Webkit.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I then turned my attention to using firefox and naively assumed flash was working in Lucid as it had in previous versions of Ubuntu. The result? Of course it wasn’t.<\/p>\n
The adobe flash package is there, the plugin file was there, but no flash functionality. I found the fix on the Ubuntu forums:<\/p>\n
# ln -s \/usr\/lib\/adobe-flashplugin\/libflashplayer.so .mozilla\/plugins\/libflashplayer.so<\/p>\n
That link was the difference between the user experience of flash working or not. For the average user that is a big deal.<\/p>\n
Is anyone able to explain why such simple regressions still slip through Ubuntu’s cracks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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