[Novalug] Is Google Chrome going to threaten Linux?

[Dan Arico]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 9:14:33 pm Opus wrote:

> To my mind, this is an area where Java combined with Postgresql could be
> leveraged to create software that would run on all of the major
> platforms. Yes, these apps would run on Windows also, but at least
> they'd give the users a choice if they wanted to move away from Windows...

Python would be another possibility.

> On the consumer front, there are many, many examples of apps like
> greeting card programs, cookbook programs, etc., and also some online
> type apps like Yoville (on Facebook) that run fine in Firefox on Windows
> with Flash, but just won't run in Firefox on Linux with Flash (don't
> know who to blame for that, but it just doesn't work).

I've run into that. It appears to be a problem with the version of Flash 
player. I've got Flash player 10 working on OpenSUSE 11.1 and Kubuntu 8.10, 
but not on earlier versions.

Why do they have to keep changing Flash player? Can't they just stick with one 
version that works and quit breaking it?

Dan

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