flash 4 hangs nspluginviewer

[George Staikos]

On Monday 08 March 2004 15:37, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This one took me quite some time to figure out, including recompiling
> kdebase ;-)
>
> I used the libflashplugin.so from my netscape navigator 4 installation
> which worked well so far in KDE 3.0. However, upgrading to KDE 3.2 made
> konqueror hang whenever a flash plugin was to be loaded.
>
> Eventually I found out that upgrading to Flash plugin 6 resolved the
> problem. Therefore, to save other people the hassle, it should be annotated
> somewhere that Flash 4 is broken in KDE 3.2, and people should upgrade to
> Flash 6.
>
> Which document whould be most suitable for such an annotation? Is there any
> such thing like an "upgrade guide" for kde?

  www.konqueror.org is the best place.  Given the frequency of this bug 
report, I'm tempted to put code in to disable this plugin if it's found.  
Flash4 is simply not compatible (I believe due to the libstdc++ it's linked 
to).

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