[LUNI] Firefox Freezes on Flash Animations

[Chris Scullard]

Hi Rob,

You probably want to use the proprietary Flash player. Under Ubuntu it's 
called flashplayer-nonfree, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same 
for Debian.

Chris

Robert Smith wrote:
> Over the holidays I installed "swfplayer" on my Compaq
> laptop running Debian Etch. Ever since then, whenever
> Iceweasel encounters a web page using flash, it locks
> up and I must kill the process, restart the browser,
> and then close the offending tab before it loads.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior with swfplayer, and is
> there an alternative helper application to play
> Macromedia Flash content in Firefox/Iceweasel?
>
> Rob Smith
>