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Running: Win98SE, IE6
Please advise me of viable alternative(s) to Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player.
Thanks
RE: Response #1:
probably because Flash's godawful implementation pretty much cripples IE. I pretty much gave up using IE on flash-full sites like Youtube as it constantly crashes. Even on Firefox there are annoying bugs. Ever since Adobe took over it has been happening.
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"probably because Flash's godawful implementation pretty much cripples IE"
It does? Hmmmm. I wonder why none of my systems are crippled or why there aren't multiple posts in these forums about this "crippling effect"?
My guess is the problem has more to do with morphtoo's extremely low system specs - "CPU/Ram: Pentium120/96" & if it's a dial-up machine, that only compounds the "crippling".
If that's the case, just disable it:
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>>>the problem has more to do with morphtoo's extremely low system specs - "CPU/Ram: Pentium120/96" & if it's a dial-up machine, that only compounds the "crippling".<<<
He's lucky to have IE6 stable on that low-end of a CPU...
Maybe flash would work better on something like Opera9, but having never tried, I'm not sure...
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just installed xp on this pII 160mb thinkpad,yesterday. install opera 9 and, went to scifi.com. Got the flash is required message, so I downloaded flash and installed it, its working fine.
larry
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If I were you, I wouldn't even bother installing Flash on that system. I had Flash running on an K6-233/256 machine not long ago, and found it much too slow for even casual surfing. Even loading computing.net took ages, thanks to the MS System Center ads.
Flash was "designed for big" PCs. "Really, really big" PCs. lol.
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Adobe Flash gives me problems too. I'm not very computer literate, but it seems like Adobe stores a minimal amount of data on your pc based off of what your estimated connection speed is. So if your internet connection speed fluctuates or slows down it pauses the movie you're watching, and sometimes completely stops, and you have to reload the page and try to get back to where you were in the movie. On Comedy Centrals' website, the player will frequently freeze and begin replaying the episode from the beginning in the 'background' so that two instances will be playing at the same time.
I don't know the fix for this, but I'm with you, and I wish I knew of an alternative program.
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