(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi everybody! I hope I am using the correct forum place to post my problem. Anyway I'm a beginner user, then it could be correct.

I started to use puppy linux almost 6 months ago and I'm very very happy with this OS. I use it on a notebook with Intel I7 microprocessor with 4 GB ram and it goes excellent. The problem appear when I put this OS on a netbook with an Atom 1.6GHz microprocessor with 2 GB ram and I tried to use chromium or firefox on youtube.
The puppy linux runs very well without problem, but the flash player uses almost 100% of cpu!!! I hate that plugin!.

Do you know some solution what I can do or any alternative software?. I am really exciting to use this OS on older machines, but it is a problem if I cannot enter to some site because the flash player doesn`t work, don`t you think?

I`m sure you will help in anyway.

Thank you!.

Tell us your Puppy version.

I have an older Acer netbook...31/2 years old

>> eMachines eM350-21G16i

1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 (1 cores)
Memory: 1 GB DDR2

I run the latest Lucid...no problems
Dpup Wheezy and Slacko...older versions

Look at my post here for links.

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... dc7f7387dc

I also use the latest Flash.

However some Puppies would be too new for this Acer.

Chris.

nicko02338 wrote:Do you know some solution what I can do or any alternative software?

Hi...

One option would be to try another version of flash player. Here is a thread that provides different versions.

Another alternative would be to try Gnash as a replacement to flash player. You can also check the Puppy Package Manager to see if there is a copy there. Another one is called Lightspark but I'm not sure if either of these two are as good as Adobe's.

Regards...

Actually one very good move I find is to use flashblock...a browser addon.

Basically makes flash content a click to enable job unless you specify otherwise.

I often find its not the main flash item bogging down the page but half a dozen other unrelated junk items.

If I disable flashblock on our pentium 3 machines I find many sites unbrowsable ...one bad example is where I get train timetable info...crazy isn't it.

Otherwise javascript and crazy css are the other sources of slowdown which can be tricky to deal with. (noscript and adblock)

mike

I'm happy with a program called 'gtk youtube viewer'
Here the forum page:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835

This program lets you SEARCH, VIEW and DOWNLOAD video streams without using browsers. No flash required! I tried it and it works very well.
Bye!

mikeb wrote:Actually one very good move I find is to use flashblock..
mike

Awesome. I despise flash intrusion(s). Makes browsing with low-bandwidth and/or older hardware a B**** and I want to slam S***.
Another bone.
GRrrrrrr

The alternatives above work ok with Internet television? Which for me and several others is almost as important as email

Thank you very much to all. I did all you said and in any moment the flash is running good, with normal limitations from graphic driver of course. But I am very happy with I get.

Thanks for the feedback...anything in particular help?

mike

Well, first at all I made a clean uninstall of flash files. I back to flash 10.3 version and it worked very well. But considering advises about vulnerability from somebody from here, I tried again upgrading flash to the last version 13.x.x.x.
that is the reason I am saying I don't know which step provoque a better behaviour of flash plugin.
Thanks for all. I am really enjoying Puppy Linux! I think it is very important to have this support from all of you.

No problem...don't think you can go beyond version 12 on linux anyway.

I have flash from version 7 upwards... not had any security breaches yet...the older versions are simpler and that's not such a bad thing either in security terms.

Mike

How can I test any security bug on older versions of flash? I mean, I am kind of newbie in linux systems, is there any way I can feel confortable using an older version of flash? I really don't want to depend from any plugin, neither flash what is getting more heavy on each new version.

Good question...no one answers that for me either.

All this hypothetical weakness stuff gets a bit tedious and no one backs it up with actual occurrences.

I reverted back to 10.0.15 as videos stream to /tmp and never had a sniff of a breach in the 4-5 years of using it

mike