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Ubuntu 12.04 : Fix for Adobe Flash crashing while playing videos

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When adobe stopped support for its flash player in linux, it was not just bad news, it was a terrible news as the version then had some serious bugs. One of the common one being the people in the youtube or flash videos appearing in blue color. The blue tint was making everyone in the video like a navi from the movie Avatar.

Another common problem is seeing the flash player crashing in browsers, both firefox and chrome. One solution is provided below.

Make sure you take a backup of the file below before attempting an edit so you can revert to it, incase something fails.

$sudo vi /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

#remove the first line and the file should have only the line as shown below. 
OverrideGPUValidation=true

Now close the browser(s) and test the flash link again. It should not be crashing as often it was earlier at the least.

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Searchme – The new era of visual search.

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Searchme is a search engine. Yes, one would guess, oh here’s another one out to change the way one searches the web. But this one does catch your attention. It displays results in visual format and lets you slide through results using a slide bar in the bottom. The visual effects are appealing, which gives you a impression like as if we are flipping through yellow pages. As you type the categories are auto suggested and placed as icons right below your text box as shown below.

searchme autosuggest

As is evident, the whole site is Flash SWF file. The rich look and feel is driven by Flex and is currently under beta stage. It would take them some time to establish themselves, but their crawlers are already on the sprawl to index the web. You can join their development team by applying to jobs@searchme.com .

searchme


Watch the demo videos
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/BZSpjXEvy1I&hl=en]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/TsGR5HP2ffw&hl=en]

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