[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

[Mauro Santos]

On 06/15/2010 10:09 PM, Christoffer Hirth wrote:
> ti., 15.06.2010 kl. 16.04 -0500, skrev C Anthony Risinger:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Gaurish Sharma
>>> <contact at gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> since 64bit plugin is out, what are the Alternatives for Users?
>>>
>>> - keep it and use Flashblock addon (firefox)
>>> - use Gnash or other open-source version (not very useful)
>>> - use 32-bit plugin with nspluginwrapper
>>> - use 32-bit plugin with 32-bit browser
>>> - give up Flash
>>> - ignore the risk and just keep using it
>>>
>>> Any others I missed?
>>
>> i recently tried a new flash plugin that was completely OSS, that had
>> declared itself beta.  unfortunately the name of it escapes me at the
>> moment.  i couldn't get it working quite right but i didn't put a lot
>> of time into it either.  from around the net the consensus was it
>> looked very promising as an Adobe replacement.
>>
>> C Anthony
> 
> I believe it is the lightspark?
> 
> It is in aur as "lightspark-git".
> 
> 

It looks promising, however it crashed my machine without any warning
and I had to reboot the machine the hard way. Just so you know and don't
try it while doing anything important.

-- 
Mauro Santos