dogfood report: Safari runs youtube, firefox doesn't

Reece Dunn msclrhd at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 9 13:39:35 CDT 2010


On 9 September 2010 19:29, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> So I wanted to quickly try youtube in wine to verify sound
> was working.  I think I used to use Firefox for this, so
> I did
>  sh winetricks firefox flash
> and fired it up... but it hung.  (And it even hung my desktop
> once; had to use CTL ALT F1, kill firefox, and ALT F7 to recover.
> It must have hung while holding an X grab, that mysterious
> problem described in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23439#c7 )
> Sad face.
>
> Happily,
>  sh winetricks safari
> got me a working browser that can do youtube just fine.

What version of Firefox?

Is it a version with out-of-process plugin support?

- Reece



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