[PLUG] Testing Flashplayer on x86_64 System

[Paul Munday]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 06:29 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm told that despite my installing flash player on the Sony portable it's
> not working. My two questions are: 1) how do I find a file in that format on
> the Web for testing purposes, and 2) what would be an appropriate process to
> identify the source of the problem?
> 

Better late than never...

Did you get this fixed? Whats the CPU?

There is an odd flash bug floating around at the moment. Adobe started
using the SSE2 complier flag. only not all chipsets*  support the SSE2
instruction set. 

See: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034

The version of Flash shipped with Chrome is compiled without this and
works fine. Its possible to extract the plugin from a package, rename
and move it into the appropriate directory and Firefox will  use it
without problems.


* Intel Pentium III Coppermine
Intel Pentium III Tualatin
Intel Celeron Mendocino
Intel Celeron Coppermine-128
Intel Celeron Tualatin-256
Intel Pentium M
AMD Athlon XP

HTH
Paul



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