Epiphany and Firefox were crashing with an apparant X server error, whenever I tried to visit a page on the Harvey Norman website. (By the way, good work webmaster, for making the product list dependant on Flash! </sarcasm>)
It even once crashed the X server. Now, I’d thought that I’d uninstalled the GPL Flash Mozilla plugin, but it looked like I hadn’t, and just out of a hunch I uninstalled it to see if that fixed the crashes.
It did, of course.
The moral of the story is: If you want to browse the web reliably on PPC, don’t install GPL Flash (it doesn’t work, anyway).
The other moral of the story is: If you want to browse Flash-based websites on Ubuntu, get an x86 PC. Which is something I will do. I’m currently thinking of a simple Sempron 3200+ system by Compaq, and when I get more money I’d upgrade the memory and possibly swap in an Athlon 64 processor. I heard that you can do that, so it’s always a good option.
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