Look, Adobe, can we please get with the times and start making a product that works on Linux? Please? It’s getting closer to 2010 and we’re still missing flying cars, meals in pills and a flash player that actually works most of the time. You see that? I’d even settle for most of the time right now. The sad truth is, Flash locks up on my current Ubuntu install, with the latest Flash release and it happens all the time.
Why on Earth should my modern browsers (Firefox, Opera) still freeze up on every third embedded video I try to play? Websites are rendered ugly as hell because Flash just doesn’t know what to do with them. You do realize that by hindering a portion of today’s web browsing consumers you’re eventually affecting your own bottom line, right? Even a small portion who can’t do the things that web developers, web store owners and viral marketing execs expect them to do can be significant if it impacts delivery and sales.
For those who aren’t employed by Adobe. Yeah, I think that Flash sites are not the way to go, even with Google’s revelation that Flash can now be indexed. The truth of the matter is Flash is here and it’s probably here to stay so we need Adobe to please swallow whatever bitter pill they’re fumbling around with and just get a working version out to all of us in Linuxland so we can watch cats attack string on YouTube or whatever it is we’re wanting to do online. Okay? I know of lots of local, small sites like restaurants and small brick and mortar shops who have Flash front ends on their sites. And you know what? It stinks not being able to patronize them – for them and for me.
We need a working Flash. Let’s hope 10 does a much better job of it than 9. Until then, I’ll be taking my own petty mental revenge by referring to this monstrosity of a rich media crap fest as ‘flunk’ using my inside voice. No, that won’t fix anything but at least it will get that grimace on my face into a twisted smile as I kill and restart my browser yet again.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
And don’t get me started on the “where the heck is native 64-bit”, either. They’re stonewalling that much as Twitter is stonewalling “where the heck did IM and Tracking go?”.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:07 am
No kidding. For something that’s become a defacto web standard, they really need to get on the ball and make a product that works.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Um, sometimes this isn’t so much Flash as it is the way you arranged your kernel or your video drivers.
Oh, and who hasn’t had that problem where a popdown menu goes UNDERNEATH a flash animation? Talk about aggravation!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Never had a problem developing and using Flash 9/10 on any distro of Linux. Some people have bad luck / bad configs
September 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I’ve got three ubuntu boxes, two of them pretty much stock and none of them play all that well with flash. My lappy is the worst, but it’s true, I’ve mucked around with it a lot more.
I’ve had drop downs go under, and just 10 minutes ago I had a little flash effect stick on the page and NOT GO AWAY. ARGH!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am
While I personally have never had problems using Flash in Linux, I have had unbelievable problems getting Flash to work on a friend’s Windows machine. For some folks the luck goes the other way.
As much as flash is a pain, just wait until Silverlight becomes more popular:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/library_of_congress.html
Make sure that you write to every website that uses Silverlight and complain. Let me know about them so that I can complain too.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
64bit was demo’ed internally in adobe: http://vadi-blog.com/2008/08/28/adobe-does-care/
September 4th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Flash mostly works for me in Debian Sid although it can get quite greedy with the CPU cycles. Nobody mentions the poor saps running BSD. When is Adobe going to finally address the lack of a native Flash player for BSD? Sure BSD users can emulate linux and use a linux browser but with the ubiquity of Flash on the web, it is long past time that Adobe filled that hole. There is a petition online that people can sign to help bring Adobe’s attention to the matter.
http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html
September 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Cool Vadim. I hope they get this worked out.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Wouldn’t it be better to go directly to the bottom of the problem and instead of demanding a player that request the format to be opened?
This is the reason why it’s terrible to have closed formats standardized. Everyone else on the planet depends on who have the keys to the box.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Alternatively, I hope The Gnash Project catches up soon.
Last time I tried it the rendering was much slower and choppier (for animations – I didn’t check videos) than Adobe’s player, but Gnash was making good progress.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Edo – I don’t see Adobe giving up their dominance by opening Flash. I think it would be wonderful if they did so but personally kind of futile to push them to do it.
Yes, you’re right, closed standards stink.
Epicanis, I’ve not had much good luck with Gnash either – but if they get better, I’d switch in a heartbeat!
September 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Yawn. Adobe is a commercial company. It can do whatever it wants, and generally commercial companies do things for the people who pay them. Making Flash work on Linux may not be their top priority because — newsflash — you’re a petty, complaining, minority who haven’t ever bought a copy of Flash. Flash CS3 Professional is ~$700. Why not start coughing up or shut the hell up? Oh, it doesn’t run on Linux? Is that Adobe’s fault too? Oh, it doesn’t run on Amiga either. God, Adobe are really neglecting the market, eh? Why don’t you start complaining why you weren’t front of the line when Google released Chrome instead?
Man, you guys suck.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Tony you seem to have missed the point. Adobe sells Flash at $700 so the whole world can come and visit those fancy sites created by their product. As Linux becomes much more widespread (i.e. embedded devices, netbooks, Lenovo and Dell products to name just a few) this becomes more and more of a problem for Adobe.
I could give a rats ass if CS3 ran on Linux, I just want a product that is used to create web pages to work in any modern browser, on any modern platform. It’s in Adobe’s best interest too.
I don’t really care about chrome, because I don’t need it to view a significant chunk of the web.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Dude, flash works fine. Check your video drivers, maybe you are using compiz or xgl. I agree though, flash should be open sourced or replaced by an open source project, where is google???
September 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Hey Tony, neeewwwwwwwwsflash! A hell of a lot of web site/application developers use Linux. Why should we produce sites that leverage Flash when we can’t even use it ourselves?
Furthermore, I personally think that Adobe’s inability to make Flash work well across all commonly used platforms makes them look like they just can’t get their act together.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
latest build + flashblock made ubuntu tolerable for me
September 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I upgraded to Flash 10 Beta (w/ Firefox 3 & fully updated Ubuntu 8.04). Firefox no longer crashes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/192888
In summary, the solution to this bug:
1. Upgrade to Flash 10 (at release candidate status as of 13/8)
2. Drop libflashsupport completely (it causes instability in Flash 9 and 10)
3. Fix bug #198453
September 4th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I wish crashing was the issue here.. My problem is I have no sound when I view flash content! I’ve tried some workarounds no luck I’m going to give a try of Flash 10 beta see if that works.
-Kevin
September 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
We’re hoping that with all that money we give Adobe, they keep delivering an inferior web browsing experience on Linux machines. It’s all in our master plan.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hey Paul Dorman, I agree and that’s the point. You Linux web developers can continue making rich web apps using Java applets or Gnash or whatever the hell it is you guys use. Linux is *not* a commonly used platform. When it is, you’ll have a decent version of Flash Player for your Booboo-untu? Mmmmmkay?
(You’re probably going to tell me you want Flash Player for your Apache server)
September 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I believe Adobe should get a shift on with a decent Linux release of the Flash player. x64 support is a joke, they are really taking the mickey with full screen support, and I am personally appalled at how unstable the plugin is. There’s no excuse for it!
@Tony Blake: You clearly have no clue how computers work, so I’ll explain something very briefly. Flash is not a server-side app, it’s client side. Pathetic little strops aren’t going to get you anywhere.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hey Tony, are you getting paid by Adobe to troll like this or is it a hobby? Did you miss the point that arsgeek made about Linux being at the heart of more and more handheld devices etc- the folks that buy those are not the “petty, complaining, minority who haven’t ever bought a copy of Flash”, they are regular consumers that want to surf the web on their devices without issue- and as for the assumption that nobody that runs Linux has bought a copy of Flash, well, how about you buy clue eh? It would probably be cheaper than the latest version of Dreamweaver and you’ll get more mileage out of it to…
That said, I’m running Kubuntu on a 64-bit Gateway laptop with the repository version (restricted extras) of Flash and have had no issues- thankfully, although the things being under other things is an issue, particularly on this site:
http://remix.nin.com/
That’s annoying…
September 9th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Flash offers great solutions for problems you wouldn’t have without Flash. Learn to live without the overwhelmingly useless sites that force you to have it. Addicted to YouTube? Join a 12 steps group!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Oh and while you’re at it, Adobe, do us a 64bit version? Many thanks.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I hear for you. I’ve had a lot of problems with Flash under Linux, and it took a lot of configuration which I would imagine would put off people from even considering Linux. Flash is an important web technology, so you can kinda see why it would be offputting.
One more thing, there needs to be some way of developing flash under Linux. I’m not sure if there is any, but if there isn’t, there really needs to be. It’s something I have to look to Windows to work on.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Yeah Flash do you want us to start using Silverlight while your dev. test procrastinates on making Flash work in Linux?
If only Gnash was easy to setup / completely working I’d ditch you. I can’t play more CPU-intensive Flash games for crap, and high-motion videos tear on even my year-old Core 2 Duo because the flvs are horribly handled.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I haven’t had to actually restart a browser because of flash, but it still is pretty slow. Although, the newest (subversion) version of Webkit/GTK+ seems to get way better performance. Maybe they already fixed it?
October 8th, 2008 at 7:52 am
It took them 2 years to put out a universal binary of the Shockwave plugin for Mac. 2 whole years after the Intel switch. I had to run Firfox in Rosetta emulation, meaning it was slllooooowwwwwww as heck for a whole year. If that’s any indication of the momentum of projects within Adobe it does not bode well for Linux.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I run a stock Linux kernel, stock xorg, and use awesome, fluxbox, or e17 as a graphical environment on very moderate but modern hardware, and don’t have a problem with Flash. Ubuntu and other instant desktop/noob distros tend to not be set up specifically for your hardware and the software you intend to run on them, but rather use a bloated catch-all approach out of the box (check and see just how many chipsets you have xorg packages for. Last time I checked, Ubuntu and Debian came with about all of them. My system only has one, for my hardware, and I know this because I installed it myself. It took about fifteen seconds to do so and get it running.) and from what I’ve seen, a very large portion of their users are so obsessed with taxing what hardware they do have with desktop eye-candy that the little bugs in proprietary software that those of us with more streamlined systems don’t usually notice tend to wreak havoc on their systems. I suggest you take the time to learn how to properly configure your graphical system to work with your hardware (the price you pay for portability + what is intended to be a free diy system), and you’ll suffer much less breakage. In the long run, if you want to use “Linux”, learn a little about the internal workings and make it do what you want it to do instead of complaining to companies who have no intention of supporting your platform. If you’re not willing to learn, use a system with paid support (Redhat, etc.) or go back to proprietary systems.
The point of Free Software is the freedom and availability of tools to make your system do what you want it to do, not to make a free Mac/Windows clone with bragging rights.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Flash 9 is still working ok on my k’buntu setup,with the occasional crash, but not much to bitch about. BUT I am STILL waiting for a Linux version of the Shockwave Player… I miss my Isketch.net…Whaddya think?
October 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
my flash issues stopped when i 1. updated to latest flash beta. 2. upgraded firefox to 3.0.3 and potentially 3. cleared my ~/.mozilla folder.
For alsa issues (mentioned) I usually “fix” them by doing a sudo lsof /dev/snd/* and killing the apps hogging the audio device.
However i don’t use ubuntu and don’t use pulseaudio.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:06 am
In all fairness.. you could always go ahead and make one that works yourself.
I didn’t think so.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Here Here! I concur! I don’t know what exactly it is but I have a ridiculously fast system and a great video card but some flash simply kills my system. I’d like to see improvements as well.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:50 pm
For most of you fanboy linux users, I think its the PEBMAC that is causing the problem. If you dont know what PEBMAC is, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pebmac.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I’ve got flash working fine on Ubuntu hardy heron. Granted, it took a little tweaking, but it’s pretty much fail-proof right now.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Not to mention the huge hassle it is to get flash actually working in the first place on lunix. Sure if you are familiar with Linux it isn’t hard, but if you’re a total noob it can take hours. It’s the kind of thing that should come already installed on all linux distros, but doesn’t. Oh well…
January 16th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
The crazy thing about this is, the Flash spec already is open, but for generation only, per Adobe’s license. In other words, they give you permission to use the spec to write a product that competes with the one they sell, but forbid you from writing a plug-in that competes with the one they give away!
The logic escapes me. I’ve seen it suggested that they want to ensure a certain “user experience”; but for that to make sense, the Linux version of the plug-in would first have to not be a piece of crap, which it always has been.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
http://markusthielmann.com/blog/defusing_one_most_annoying_bugs_ubuntu_hardy_heron_stop_flash_killing_firefox
here is a workaround I found.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Seems like you should complain about Firefox and Opera just as much as Flash. On Windows, Firefox “freezes” all the time for me due to embedded plugins, Flash, Java, PDF, AJAX, etc, which try to load some content, and block on the connection read, or block on some internal bug triggered by the content. This forces a kill and reboot of the entire Firefox browser. Firefox is abusing their customers by refusing to have a sane user interface that recognizes that plugins freezing is a common occurrence, and allowing just the frozen tab to be killed. I wonder how many non-literate users don’t know what a frozen plugin means, and simply wait for 10 minutes and then reboot their computer, just to “fix Firefox”?
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I agree with you though. Ten years ago my computers would almost never freeze. Modern computers, with all three OSes (Mac, Windows, Linux) that I’ve used, are much more freeze prone. It seems that just about half the time I’m killing some new process, or watching the entire system hung because some bloated application is reading from disk or ran into a bug and paged into virtual memory. I entirely stopped using Photoshop and went back to MS Paint just because I got so sick of staring at the loading screen. It’s sad that in 2009 we don’t yet have modern tools that are appropriate for humans, and instead humans are usually just sitting there waiting for the Turing machine to get it together (or killing processes to get a usable GUI back).
This is why I laugh at the people who talk about the Singularity, they think in the future our minds will be computers, whereas I think our minds will just crash or we’ll sit there in a hung virtual reality environment all day, just twiddling our thumbs waiting for boot up.
March 18th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I personally think that Adobe’s inability to make Flash work well across all commonly used platforms makes them look like they just can’t get their act together.
May 3rd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Epicanis, I’ve not had much good luck with Gnash either – but if they get better, I’d switch in a heartbeat!
May 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Hey Paul Dorman, I agree and that’s the point. You Linux web developers can continue making rich web apps using Java applets or Gnash or whatever the hell it is you guys use. Linux is *not* a commonly used platform.
May 11th, 2010 at 3:41 am
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May 16th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Good quality content is important but it’s not everything. I’ve seen blogs with bad content, yet they still manage to rank on top for several keywords. Sure, they will certainly bore the reader with bad content.
May 16th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I’ve got three ubuntu boxes, two of them pretty much stock and none of them play all that well with flash. Just wanna say thank you for the information that you have been shared on your site. Simple but very informative. Hoping that you could give more other information about this.
May 20th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Flash offers great solutions for problems you wouldn’t have without Flash. Learn to live without the overwhelmingly useless sites that force you to have it. I did read this blog and it was very interesting. I liked the second part the most.
May 26th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Flash 9 is still working ok on my k’buntu setup,with the occasional crash, but not much to bitch about. BUT I am STILL waiting for a Linux version of the Shockwave Player. You made some good points here.I had to take a second to write and thank you for introducing me the information. Keep up your good work.
May 26th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Um, sometimes this isn’t so much Flash as it is the way you arranged your kernel or your video drivers. An article very well written. And yet another thumbs up for Schipps. I agree with what your writing. It’s best that people take notice of that.
May 28th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Seems like you should complain about Firefox and Opera just as much as Flash. Thanks for the information on linking.
May 30th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
No joke. For something that’s become a de facto standard web, they really need to get the ball and make a product that works.
June 10th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
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June 30th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I have three ubuntu boxes, two of them more or less shares, and none of them play very well with flash. My lappy is the worst, but it’s true, I’ve mucked around with it more.
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:21 am
Sometimes this is not so much Flash as it is the way it organized its core, or video drivers. Oh, and who has not had that problem in a menu is popdown under a flash animation? Talk about aggravation!
July 4th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I have three ubuntu boxes, two of them more or less shares, and none of them play very well with flash. My lappy is the worst, but it’s true, I’ve mucked around with it more.
July 5th, 2010 at 3:06 am
Find any remedies to make it better. I agree that it won’t fix anything but you find ways.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
You and steve jobs both. Are you Steve Jobs in disguise? I bet you wish!
July 11th, 2010 at 11:11 am
You Linux web developers can continue to make rich Web applications using Java applets or Gnash or whatever the hell is that you use. I agree and that’s the point.
July 12th, 2010 at 7:20 am
“Never had a problem developing and using Flash 9/10 on any distro of Linux. Some people have bad luck / bad configs”
You are right! I never had this problem too.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Ahhh, Adobe. Always messing with us linux folks!
August 1st, 2010 at 3:07 am
I’ve never had a problem with Flash development and use of 9 / 10 in any Linux distro. Some people have bad luck / bad configs.
August 1st, 2010 at 3:29 am
Although I personally have never had problems with the use of Flash in Linux, I have had incredible problems getting Flash to work on the machine of a friend Windows. For some lucky people going the other way.
August 8th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Do you realize that by preventing a portion of today’s web browsing is affecting consumers finally their own bottom line, right?
August 14th, 2010 at 4:39 am
Although I personally have never had problems with the use of Flash on Linux, I have had incredible problems getting Flash to work on the machine of a friend Windows. For some lucky people going the other way.
August 24th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Nice topik 2 whole years after the Intel switch. I had to run Firfox in Rosetta emulation, meaning it was slllooooowwwwwww as heck for a whole year. If that’s any indication of the momentum of projects within Adobe it does not bode well for Linux.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:08 pm
I had to run Firfox in Rosetta emulation, meaning it was slllow as heck for a whole year. Its nice topic!
September 4th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
“Never had a problem developing and using Flash 9/10 on any distro of Linux. Some people have bad luck / bad configs.
September 9th, 2010 at 3:30 am
With regards to flash problems under linux platforms, i used the google chorme browser. it already has a built in adobe flash player when you install it.
September 17th, 2010 at 4:15 am
I do not mean to “Where the hell is native 64-bit, either. They are stonewalling that Twitter is much obstructionism” where the devil is not instant messaging and monitoring go? “. The facility just ensures the comprehensive development they are working on. Thank you for the information.
September 24th, 2010 at 4:26 am
No joke. For something that’s become a de facto standard web, they really need to get the ball and make a product that works. This blog shows you some of the top tips and information on how to go about SEO, link building, articles and search engine news.
September 24th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Sometimes this is not so much Flash as it is the way it organized its core, or video drivers. Oh, and who has not had that problem in a menu is popdown under a flash animation? Learn to live without the overwhelmingly useless sites that force you to have it. I did read this blog and it was very interesting. I liked the second part the most.
September 24th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Order, sometimes this is not so much flash as it is the way you arranged your kernel or your video drivers. Oh, and who has not had that problem where a menu popdown goes UNDERNEATH a flash animation? Talk about aggravation! Thank you for taking the time to write this blog post. Much appreciated, very valuable information.
October 1st, 2010 at 5:07 pm
i have had nothing but issues and i feel that for the money that they are making from it then it should be close to if not perfect. obviously it never will be but it should be better than what it is now.
October 5th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I’ve got three ubuntu boxes, two of them pretty much stock and none of them play all that well with flash. My lappy is the worst, but it’s true, I’ve mucked around with it a lot more. I’ve had dropdowns go under, and just 10 minutes ago I had a little effect flash stick on the page and NOT GO AWAY. ARGH! There many new graduated designer, and I think they have a big opportunities in this job. Sometimes they have a great job even they are still new in the real project.
October 6th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
While I personally have never had problems with the use of Flash on Linux, I have had incredible problems getting flash to work on the machine of a friend Windows. For some lucky people going the other way. As much as Flash is a pain, just wait until Silverlight becomes more popular: ttp: / dotancohen.com / / eng / library_of_congress.html sure to write on every Web site that uses Silverlight and complain. Let me know about so I can complain too much. The facility just ensures the comprehensive development they are working on. Thank you for the information.
October 7th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
It’s all about money, and users means money, do the math, linux users vs windows users, and that’s why. Myself for instance, I use basically windows, for gaming, web browsing … and linux, only remote console, for developing and administration purposes only.
October 11th, 2010 at 2:41 am
I think Flash fully works on Linux now. Adobe must have worked hard to let flash fully work on different OS environment.
October 12th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
64bit what demo’ed internally in adobe: ttp: / / vadi-blog.com/2008/08/28/adobe-does-care / Is Beiber that new idol people talk about recently? He’s amazingly young, no wonder a lot of women screaming whenever he sings.
October 24th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
I think Flash fully works on Linux now. Adobe must have worked .
October 26th, 2010 at 6:02 am
I would say that in 2010 they did quite a good job on the development of the flash player. Practically I have had no problems with my flash player now.
October 30th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Alternatively, I hope he Gnash Project catches up soon. Last time I tried it the rendering was much slower and choppier (for animations – I did not check videos) than Adobe’s player, but what Gnash making good progress. I really loved reading your blog. It was very well authored and easy to understand. Unlike additional blogs I have read which are really not good. I also found your posts very interesting. In fact after reading, I had to go show it to my friend and he enjoyed it as well!
November 1st, 2010 at 4:58 am
Edo – I do not see Adobe give up his domain by opening Flash. I think it would be wonderful if they did but personally I kind of useless to push them to do so. Yes, you’re right, closed standards stink. Epicanis, I have not had much luck good or Gnash – but if they get better, I’d change in a heartbeat! Very useful article. I love twitter.
November 4th, 2010 at 7:07 am
I Never had a problem developing and using Flash 10 on any distro of Linux. Some people have bad luck / bad configs.But you are right!
Flash fully works on Linux now. Adobe must have worked .
November 20th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
well written and spot on blog post. Thanks
November 23rd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
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November 29th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Would not it be better to go directly to the root of the problem and instead of requiring a player to the application of the format open? This is the reason why it is terrible to have standardized closed formats. Everyone else on the planet depends on having the keys to the box. I really loved reading your blog. It was very well authored and easy to understand. Unlike additional blogs I have read which are really not good. I also found your posts very interesting. In fact after reading, I had to go show it to my friend and he enjoyed it as well!
December 4th, 2010 at 11:32 am
On the other hand, I hope that last time I tried the performance was much slower and agitated (for animation – I did not check the video) player from Adobe, but Gnash was making good progress. A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
December 6th, 2010 at 9:32 am
They also need to find a way to devise their software, it’s too bulky for me. I hope they will entail my compliment regarding their products. I just mean that hey should resolve this issue.
December 10th, 2010 at 11:09 am
It all dependes on the configuration. I havent had any problem with flash a and linux at all.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:23 am
hmmm really interesting, your writing style is really interesting. I don’t use linux but I am convinced by you. If you want to start a rebellion against Flash I am with you.
Actually I am using windowsXP and sometime it does problems but after reinstalling or restarting the PC solve the problem.
I hope your problem get solved by version 10.
Thanks for this Great Article arsgeek
December 16th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
This site has more technology feature to create geneous.Linux is a open source operating system.It has many feature.Linux is comment based operating system.
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December 25th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Flash player is used high technology. Most of the people all over the world use this software. Recently the version is realize. I am also use this player.
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January 6th, 2011 at 5:13 am
Dude, the flash works well. Check the video drivers, maybe you’re using compiz or xgl. I agree if the flash should be open source or replaced by an open source project, which is google?? Nowadays, every kind of agency have already build a server. This has shown up that this is one of major needs of an agency.
January 6th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hi Tony, hell of a lot line website / application developers use Linux. Why should we produce sites that use Flash when we can not even use it ourselves? Furthermore, I personally think that the inability of Adobe Flash to function well in all common platforms makes them seem like just can not get their act together. He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
January 18th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Ya, I really don’t think I can relate to what was said above. No disrespect I suppose.
January 21st, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I upgraded to Flash 10 beta (w / fully updated Firefox 3 and Ubuntu 8.04). Firefox no longer crashes. Cool application it is. I believe users are so excited to know this. It has been a while too since we last had a new one.
January 25th, 2011 at 4:58 am
i did see a lot of plugin capabilities in ubuntu latest version the popularity on ubuntu is increasing day by day and big guns are providing free software for them too
January 28th, 2011 at 5:36 am
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February 5th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
The truth of the matter is Flash is here and it’s probably here to stay so we need Adobe to please swallow whatever bitter pill they’re fumbling around with and just get a working version out to all of us in Linuxland so we can watch cats attack string on YouTube or whatever it is we’re wanting to do online. Okay?
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February 24th, 2011 at 8:10 am
Windows siempre ha dejado mucho que desear. Simplemente reproducir vídeo flash en Linux es una experiencia bastante mala y tampoco es muy agradable en Mac OS X. Según Adobe los problemas de rendimiento son en parte a
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February 26th, 2011 at 9:40 am
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March 2nd, 2011 at 10:19 pm
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March 28th, 2011 at 8:46 am
Hi Paul Dorman, I agree and that’s the point. Linux developers can continue web rich Web applications using Java applets or Gnash or whatever the hell is what you use. Linux is * not * a common platform. When that happens, you will have a decent version of Flash Player for untu Boo-Boo? Mmmmmkay? (Probably going to tell me that you want Flash Player for the Apache server) Good luck for the coordination. The teams have to ensure their capabilities first before engaging further. But I believe they will do excellent.
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May 9th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I had some difficulties playing Flash videos lately. Problems ranged from lagging sound, to ugliness, to idling black screens, to strange gray Play buttons that didn’t do anything.
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May 14th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
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May 17th, 2011 at 10:36 am
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May 25th, 2011 at 6:28 am
I agree that commenting on a new blog will make a good impression on the readers as well as the blog owner if the comment is a quality one. Secondly, it helps you make a social network which may be useful if you yourself are a blog owner.
May 27th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
It’s a fact: THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP AND BRIDGE CS3, and adobe products in general. They are way far ahead of anything ever made, on a complete different dimension. Whoever is using these tools combined at a professional photography level is aware of it. Like me, there’s tones of Linux users deeple desiring to see Adebe programs available for Linux asap, so that we can take full advantage of what I think is the best OS. It would be a dream come true. Till then we are stuck with dual-boot, or nightmare-like workflow with the programs we currently have for Linux.
May 28th, 2011 at 10:58 am
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June 1st, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Now with HTML5, future of flash is not as bright as before. Moreover flash websites are appealing but not seo friendly. A huge setback is still missing the big audience on iPhone and iPad.
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June 3rd, 2011 at 1:10 am
Adobe Flash is so important in the computing world, the Blackberry Playbook is advertising that it supports Flash. Obviously a stab at the iPads which don’t support Flash.
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June 6th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Even in 2008, I never had problems with Linux and Flash but I knew some people who did. At least it’s much more compatible now!
June 12th, 2011 at 6:54 pm
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June 15th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
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July 23rd, 2011 at 4:51 am
I am also having issues with Flash under Opera on Linux for an extended period of time. Flash fails to work (Flash for Linux 9.xx) and if I open Opera from the console, I get the following error message:
Adobe FlashPlayer: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed. Trying to call gtk_init(0,0);
Took me a while but the problem seams to be that while FireFox is GTK based, Opera is QT based, and thus creates this issue. The latest versions of Flash 9.x for Linux require a GTK browser to work.
Now, this problem effects Opera 9.2x, but Opera 9.50 (the next version, currently in beta) has a plugin wrapper which implements GTK, and thus does work correctly with Flash.
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September 10th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
I am al?? h?v?ng issues w?th Flash under Opera ?n Linux f?r ?n extended period ?f time. Flash fails t? work (Flash for Linux 9.xx) and ?f I open Opera from th? console, I g?t the f?llowing error message:
Ad?b? FlashPlayer: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed. Tr?ing to call gtk_init(0,0);
T?ok m? a whil? but the problem seams t? b? that whil? FireFox ?s GTK based, Opera is QT based, and thus creates th?s issue. Th? latest versions ?f Flash 9.x f?r Linux require ? GTK browser to work.
Now, th?s problem effects Opera 9.2x, but Opera 9.50 (th? n?xt version, curr?ntl? ?n beta) has ? plugin wrapper which implements GTK, ?nd thus d??? work correctly with Flash.
September 10th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
I am al?? h?v?ng issues w?th Flash under Opera ?n Linux f?r ?n extended period ?f time. Flash fails t? work (Flash for Linux 9.xx) and ?f I open Opera from th? console, I g?t the f?llowing error message:
Ad?b? FlashPlayer: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed. Tr?ing to call gtk_init(0,0);
T?ok m? a whil? but the problem seams t? b? that whil? FireFox ?s GTK based, Opera is QT based, and thus creates th?s issue. Th? latest versions ?f Flash 9.x f?r Linux require ? GTK browser to work.
Now, th?s problem effects Opera 9.2x, but Opera 9.50 (th? n?xt version, curr?ntl? ?n beta) has ? plugin wrapper which implements GTK, ?nd thus d??? work correctly with Flash.
October 12th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
I wish flash would curl-up and die! So tired of it and it’s “little” problems.
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October 27th, 2011 at 3:13 am
Just too bad Linux is not as graphics friendly as Windows. However it’s much more stable IMO
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November 13th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Linux require ? GTK browser to work.
Now, th?s problem effects Opera 9.2x, but Opera 9.50
November 13th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
The plugin wrapper which implements GTK and it help a lot.
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