Make Flash run regular-speed on GTK2 Mozilla

Gibberx · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 217 Location: UMBC

I caught this great tidbit after googling around yesterday. If you run this command before Mozilla/Firefox/Epiphany, you'll get Flash running at full-speed, rather than the slow crap that I had gotten used to. I can't believe I didn't find this earlier!

I stuck this near the beginning of my /usr/bin/firefox script:

e980238 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 89

Is there a way to test this to see how much performace is really gained? (other than the obvious of looking at it)
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grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

how about adding the line to /etc/env.d/10mozilla :

Selecter · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

Thank you for sharing with us. I have added this line to /usr/bin/epiphany and /usr/bin/mozilla files. I really see the difference in speed. It works.

Keffin · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

thanks - worked like a charm :wink:

kamagurka · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject:

for all you firefoxusers:

ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

Wow. Just... wow. That makes an incredible difference.
We have GOT to get the word out on this...
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kamagurka · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Assgier · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject:

lol... i allways tought that it had to do with Flash' own player... well anyways, thanks a lot dude

i hope they'll tweak this in the ebuilds too (don't want to re"patch" my /usr/bin/mozilla each time i upgrade it)

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etnoy · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject:

I will try to make a new ebuild or distfile for firefox. Unfortunately I think that the problem with this is that the library name will change over time, and might not remain as "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0" forever. Does anybody have an idea about this?
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ecatmur · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject:

charlieg · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

slougi · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

ecatmur · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Ah yes... indeed, libgtk-x11-2.0.so also links to the same lib and will be valid for longer through the progression of gtk versions.
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znerd · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Netherlands

This works on Gentoo 2004.1, kernel 2.6.5, Mozilla 1.6, GTK 2.4.0 too! It indeed improves the performance a great deal!

Now the only question is: What is the preferred way to set this variable? I assume it should be in the ebuilds for mozilla and firefox, correct? Should I file a bug report?

ecatmur · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

I would say not; it should be an env.d setting in the netscape-flash ebuild, perhaps controlled by the gtk2 USE flag. But by all means file a bug.
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zero0w · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

As FlashPlayer for Linux 7.0 r25 is released today, with the new plugin this speedup trick is no longer needed:

You can get it here:
http://macromedia.mplug.org/

cbr · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:45 am Post subject:

If this fixes everything, then surfing the web in Linux is again a little better. Can't wait for it to reach portage.

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

flash7 does not seem to fix the problem for me.

airhead · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks!!!! Thats *so* much better! :lol:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=158200&highlight=flash+gtk
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