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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:43:54 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: NPSWF32.DLL

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--- Sandy wrote:

> I have developed a conflict with Flash and
> www.slate.com.
>
> If I disable Flash, there is no conflict, but when
> Flash is enabled and
> I go to www.slate.com, Seamonkey vanishes from the
> screen without a
> trace except for an error message in except.log as
> follows:
>
> H:\SEAMONKEY\SEAMONKEY.EXE
> Tue Jun 17 22:40:29 2008
> ---[Exception Information]------------
> Access Violation (hardware
> generated,portable,fatal)
> Read Access at address 0000004ch
> Exception Address = 218b4070
> (#4555) obj #255:00024070
> Thread: Ordinal TID: 74, TID: 1, Priority: 0200h
> Process: PID: 47, Parent: 24, Status: 16
> SS:ESP=0053:0011f778 EFLAGS=00212296
> CS:EIP=005b:218b4070 EBP =0011f790
> EAX=00000002 EBX=04b2e714 ESI=07f13654
> ECX=00000000 EDX=9f13b9ba EDI=04b2e714
> DS=0053 ES=00000053 FS=250f GS=0000
> ---[End Of Exception Information]-----
>
> I tried removing npswf32.dll and reinstalling it,
> but it didn't help.
> Could it be the location that is the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy

This is where the other Sandy (Sander Nyman) would
probably comment -- as he did at the last meeting I
could get to -- that *our* Flash has become unusable
and nearly worthless on our platform, while opening
the door to all sorts of instability and conflicts. I
don't know that I would go quite that far, but our
last "impersonates-as-Flash-7" version has less and
less value as time goes on: there is not all that much
older Flash content still in use on the 'Net that we
can still view with it. I haven't had (much of) the
crashes or conflicts from it that have been reported
by others, but at some point I could see removing it
entirely, since the point of diminishing returns is
already here.

It would be great if something came in to fill this
void, the way Lucide did with PDF. (Gnash ?) But if
that was happening in any real way, I'm sure we would
have heard more about it.

Jordan

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