On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:05:52 -0500 Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
Tim,
While I wait for your response, I at least have a workaround now that a local computer geek suggested. I went to ninite.com, chose linux > chrome > install, and even though it complained about updates failing, it completed the install. Chrome is in Applications > Internet. I clicked on it, it opened, I went to youtube and played a video no problem - no complaints about an old version of Adobe Flash. Should I still do this upgrade, or just use Chrome from now on?
Chris
Chris, When I updated my Fedora machine recently, I resisted installing flash. I noticed that most YouTube videos continued to work. Most Facebook videos did not work. Whatever was causing Firefox to lock up also was not working. I have since installed flash to cope with some ski club stuff, and my Firefox has been locking up again. I am not getting Flash's out of date message on my desktop. I have been getting it on my laptop. I have had an interesting problem with Google-chrome. I run a webserver on my desktop and on my laptop. My default URLs are http://desktop/~howard and http://laptop/~howard. I would log into my laptop, and the URL would come up http://desktop/~howard. I would fix this, and when I logged into my desktop, the URL would be http://laptop/~howard. I have an active Google account to which both machines are logged in. I do not like having my personal stuff stored on the cloud. Default URLs are not important, but I am not sure how far this goes. I am back running Firefox most of the time. I use Google-chrome Over on http://www.webpagesthatsuck, Vincent Flanders insists that Flash is dead. Let's help bury it. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@optech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson