Problems with Flash based sites

[Tony Hammitt]

The only problem I have with the "official" flash player is that it has no configuration file and 
generally wants to own your sound card, even if the file is not using sound.  This will cause 
Mozilla to freeze up completely until the sound card becomes available.  More ads are using flash 
now since GIF animation is normally disabled by the user...

One inelegant way around this is to use a binary file editor to change /dev/dsp to something else 
in the flash_whatever.so file.  I changed it to /dev/fff and created it as a symlink to /dev/null.  
Now sound doesn't work in flash (I very rarely want it to) but Mozilla doesn't lock up when Xmms is 
running.

If flash was even slightly configurable, there'd be better a way to disable sound.  Or if it was 
designed better, there'd be a check to see if it could write to the sound device and then stop 
trying if it couldn't.  Or it could share the sound device like other programs...

admin at kclinux.net wrote:
> 
> http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?
> P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape
> 4
> 
> Copy & Paste into browser.
>