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November 21, 2008 An interesting post dissing firefox

I found this post today on Planète Béranger. It kind of overdoes it by calling firefox a failure with a serious bold oh you simpletons fear my geek wrath, but to resume the post says the following:

Firefox is a failed piece of shit because it uses too much memory and there’s no solution in the horizon.

More than true. The more I use Firefox, and I’ve been using it full time for quite a while, the less I like it. It’s a shitty situation. It’s a solid browser, criticisms of recent updates put aside, but it’s just too goddamn heavy. Maybe I’m being naive here, and correct me if I’m wrong, but if a browser supports tabs… you should use them, right? So why is it that having more than 10 tabs open makes Firefox rocket to over 200mb of memory usage and drags overall performance of the whole system to its knees? Fuck that.

And since we’re on the topic of web browsers, I’ve been growing more and more unhappy with internet browsing in linux. Whatever browser you use, you’re still going to have to use adobe’s flash. Well, to put it short, the flash plugin for linux is a big piece of shit. Big one. It’s horrific. Version 10 is the best yet, but it still sucks. It’s highly inefficient, if you go to one of those horrible website full of flash ads, you get with I mean. The computer literally starts crying and whining and refusing to work.

Hey, I know it’s not linux’s fault, it’s adobe’s. But it doesn’t change the fact that the internet experience is shit. Combine firefox poor performance and terrible memory management with flash suffering the exact same defects, what do you get? Pure shit.

We are in a sad state of affairs. And no solution in the horizon. Hm.

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October 21, 2008 Using Ubuntu 8.04? Get Flash Player 10 now

Have you tried flash 10? Almost good. Works better than 9 with pulseaudio, more lightweight and  gives smoother videoplayback.

First off, remove flash 9 and libflashsupport if you installed it (if you have sound normaly in flash, without killing or tweaking pulseaudio, then you probably have). Close firefox or whatever browser first!

sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport

Now finally to download and install Adobe Flash Player 10 , issue the following command :

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

Done. In Firefox if you type “about:plugins” in the address bar you should see flash 10 listed.
If you don’t like the command line, use synaptic to remove the packages, go to adobe’s site to download the .deb and double click it. But it will take 10 times more time than just copy paste this ; -)

Now, if you don’t have any sound like I did, this will probably do the trick

sudo aptitude install libasound2-plugins
asoundconf set-pulseaudio

But I haven’t rebooted so I’m just hoping the fix survives it because I have no idea what asoundconf does.
If it doesn’t work, then probably this post in ubuntu geek is the place to look.

This post was worth 1h30m of my time digging in google. Goddamnit sometimes linux pisses me off.

And by the way, my last post achieved some notorielaty. Quite amazin. Thx for reading, hope you enjoy the blog and give linux a try!

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