Adobe Flash Player 10 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Adobe Flash Player 10 Officially Released

Yesterday the Free Software Foundation released a beta update for Gnash, the Flash Player that's written by the community and is comprised of all open-source code, but today Adobe has updated its official Flash Player. Adobe's Flash Player 10 has been officially released for all supported platforms -- Linux included...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njc4Mw

[spidernik84]

Oh God, Alleluja i would say... didn't have any chance to give it a try, hope it is worth it, especially on the cpu resources consumption and on the "always on top" issue.

[Kano]

Well they forgot the Debian 4.0 users which is still the current Debian stable. Since last beta it was impossible to use it and direct download links are not available for the older betas.

[Bluekkis]

And still no native 64bit support... *sigh*

[hungerfish]

I second that, when will they give us 64bit support.
Or even better, when fill flash become something nobody uses, because coding for it is considered childish and you get beaten for it in the cafeteria from those big bodied boys (and girls) who can code c...

[Kano]

Basically it is a trivial problem:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/iceweasel ldd libflashplayer.so
./libflashplayer.so: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)

shows that only the player is compiled against a too new system since last beta. Hopefully Adobe recompiles it fast, because autoinstall is now Flash 10 which will never work this way.

[deanjo]

And still wmode is broken in x64, still pegs out a processor core to 100% in fullscreen mode..... sigh....Incompetency thy name is Adobe.

[RealNC]

Hopefully, Gnash will evolve into something useful. Let's hope the opening-up of the Flash format earlier this year will bring results.

[nstamoul0]

And still wmode is broken in x64, still pegs out a processor core to 100% in fullscreen mode..... sigh....Incompetency thy name is Adobe.

I 'll second that,wmode still broken in sid x64

Has anybody had any luck with flash + pulseaudio?In Ubuntu 8.10 everything seems to work allright,in sid flash monopolizes the sound output and one has to force-reload alsa to get back to normal.

[hungerfish]

Another issue that seems to be beyond them, is that the player does not block xscreensaver when playing fullscreen.
So basically we finally have 'proper' fullscreen support with linux, which just utterly fails to be 'really' usable.

[deanjo]

Another issue that seems to be beyond them, is that the player does not block xscreensaver when playing fullscreen.
So basically we finally have 'proper' fullscreen support with linux, which just utterly fails to be 'really' usable.


Hey they have only had close to 5 years to fix some of these issues. Sure some of these issues have been around since early 2004, but it takes a while for the bunch of untrained monkeys to type in the right combination of keys to get these issues resolved.

[jeffro-tull]

anyone having issued with fullscreen?

When I click a flash video to make it fullscreen, flash is the only thing displayed on the screen, but it doesn't make the video any larger. It just puts large, obnoxious borders around the native video size to fill the rest of the space.

[deanjo]

anyone having issued with fullscreen?

When I click a flash video to make it fullscreen, flash is the only thing displayed on the screen, but it doesn't make the video any larger. It just puts large, obnoxious borders around the native video size to fill the rest of the space.

I've seen that a few times, it's intermittent in my case.

[jeffro-tull]

I've seen that a few times, it's intermittent in my case.

Yeah, it happens everywhere in Konqueror, Opera, and Firefox. New Flash package from the Arch repos today, same result. *sigh*