Yep, Flash and Firefox in Ubuntu are a toxic combination. Earlier this evening I was on my Ubuntu PC and visiting an online quiz-making site called MyStudiyo, which has a lot of interactive flash content. It was a disaster. Crash, restart browser, crash etc. I’ve now withdrawn to my trusty Windows Vista laptop in despair. [...]
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No, I haven’t had an epiphany but I am using a web browser called Epiphany. I’ve done this in response to the repeated crashes of Firefox in versions 2 and beta 3 while running Ubuntu 8.04. The download of the browser was simple enough using the Add/Remove software feature in Ubuntu but that was the [...]
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The penny has finally dropped. All my software updates for Ubuntu have been coming from an Indonesian server, not the main server. My problems with the NVidia driver derived from the fact the driver was simply not on the Indonesian server. When I accessed the main server, the driver downloaded without any problem and after [...]
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Well I couldn’t resist it, could I? A new release of Ubuntu and the old Gutsy Gibbon or version 7.10 has been swept away and I’ll doubtless face a whole new range of problems as well as the ones I’m already familiar with from the earlier version. Already I’ve run into a little trouble in [...]
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