Okey. I canned Windows XP and installed Ubuntu. It took time since i play too many games to ditch Windows completely but when i got WoW running i had no real reason to hold on to it. The first thing i did was to install flash - everyone wants to use youtube etc. After the install of flash i notices how Firefox starts to crash all the time which was really annoying so i had to find out why. Apparently there is a glitch between the flashplugin-nonfree package and pulseaudio which makes Firefox crash. Too bad. So i googled some more and found a great tutorial on how to fix this problem (http://kemal.bioeng-network.org/2008/06/08/how-to-get-rid-of-annoying-firefox-crashes-in-ubuntu-hardy-flashplugin-nonfree/)
First of all i purged the flashplugin-nonfree and installed flash 10 (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html) - see the above mentioned tutorial for deeper info. It worked like a charm with only one complaint - flash seemed to want all audiostreams for himself making me not able to listen to music in e.g. rhythmbox and firefox at the same time. Being on rhythmbox and then clicking up a youtubelink would produce a silent video. I had to shutdown rhythmbox and firefox then boot up firefox again to be able to hear sound. Very annoying.
I googled some more, made some posts at some forums - then i turned to #ubuntu at freenode and got help from jrib. He told me to try libflashsupport. Just sudo apt-get install libflashsupport.
Due to various bugs in the Flash 9 plugin sound output of Flash 9 through the pulseaudio sound server doesn’t work properly. This library adds a clutch to make Flash 9 sound output in pulseaudio possible.
It worked perfect and i haven’t got that shuvel in my eye anymore. Cheers.
