I haven't skrittered the last few days owing to visiting family and uncertain internet.

Just fired up my brand new Samsung laptop (dual boot ubuntu and windows) to skrit and the flash plugin, which is not crashing on other sites, keeps crashing on skritter.

I'm running ubuntu 11 (stable release) and using mozilla for ubuntu.

Any ideas?

See this topic:

http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=138548177&comments=26

If you could run the Flash debug player on your system and send us any errors that show up when it crashes, we can get this fixed. As it is though, we can't reproduce this error on non-Linux machines, so far.

same for me,
after the beta version started crashing my flash player about 1/2 or 1 month ago, i went back to the stable version again but now this one also crashes flash player on all of my linux machines. (ff8+flash10 32 bit, ff8+flash11 32 bit and ff8+flash11 64bit)

And I asked my guru (my daughters cousin) to istall Windows over Ubuntu in my miniPC. I´m tired to Linux even though Linus Thorwalds is from my country.

I switched to a Windows VM too but I'd like to continue using skritter on native.

Any news about this problem?

Gone to take a look at the link. I am now working at downloading and installing the debug version. From the thread, I checked the ten point one and it just gave me a blank canvas instead of the "your Flash has crashed" message.

-M

tried and failed to get a debug version of Adobe Flash working ... any suggestions?

This is probably related to the change with the embedded cursors. If it's limited to the latest version of the site, then ubuntu users can continue to use the november release until this is sorted out. Maybe we can disable the native cursors for linux; they seem to be causing issues for one reason or another. Until then, here's the link for the november release of Skritter:

http://3-11.latest.write-way.appspot.com/

For what it's worth, it's working fine(*) for me on Ubuntu 10.04 using Chrome 16.0.912.63 beta and Flash 11.1.102.55. It does NOT work on Firefox 3.6.24, though. I use 32 bit everything. I thought I saw some other people were having problems with both Chrome and Firefox on linux, but I'm not one of them. Maybe someone can figure out what's different about me?

Well, what's different about my setup anyway, what's different about me is probably a longer question.

*Fine except for the screen redraw error that's somewhat but not completely ameliorated by appending ?wmode=opaque to the address bar. Though since the update that redraw error is manifesting in a slightly different way: whereas before if you would hover the pointer over the area that needed to be redrawn, it would redraw just from the mere presence of the pointer. Now you've got to actually start writing something new before it will redraw. While I know nothing about flash, it seems intuitively like that's just a consequence of the native cursor.

Argh... spoke too soon. Now it crashes chrome too. That's really, really effing weird. It was working all last week, and apparently the native cursor thing was working too because of the change in the bug I described above. I didn't change anything on my end, just tried different browsers to see which was causing the problem. Apparently my machine was in a quantum superposition of both working and not working, and my attempt to observe the problem collapsed the superposition and left me with a dead cat.

Scott,

Can you think of any especial reason for the GFW to hate http://3-11.latest.write-way.appspot.com/ ?

If you're looking for a temporary workaround in Linux, you can use the Windows version of Firefox in WINE. I'm also having problems with Ubuntu on here. I'm hoping Firefox under WINE is a temporary solution.

@YueMeigui: Also having problems with . Won't open at all here in China.

@YueMeigui: Yes, that's a direct url to Google App Engine's servers, which are often blocked from China because the IP address is shared across many services hosted on GAE, and if any one is blocked than we're all blocked. Do you have a VPN?

She doesn't have a VPN except when she's at my house.

And now that I've got internet at my own apartment (plus parents at my apartment) I'm hardly ever at Nicki's.

In case it adds any data, today flash made it almost to loading the canvas before crashing.

I think I've fixed this on beta for 64-bit Linux users, although I'm not sure. Can you give it another try?

http://beta.skritter.cn/study/all

Yes, I can confirm that the beta is now working on 64-bit Fredora-16, Firefox 9, flash 11.1.102.

The cursor is an arrow pushing a black dot around.