flash9 beta warning

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> For those of you who like to check out new things, be warned.
>
> The new Adobe flash9 for Linux Beta works great for most sites, but
> there is a serious bug.
>
> Don't access the following site unless you are prepared for a system restart!
>
> http://www.cnettv.com/
>
> The problem is solid across multiple Firefox/Distro releases (I'm on
> Kubuto 6.10 Firefox 2.0, FCn with Firefox 1.5.x.x gets similar
> results). Accessing this site locks the browser AND the window manager
> tight. CTL-ALT-Fn and kill everything or CTL-ALT-DEL is required.

Works fine here for me.  So that likely rules out flash9 and points to 
something in your environment (X driver, firefox build, kernel, hardware, 
etc).

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