• Open Source
  • Open Standards
  • Open Minds

 

Flash

Flash 10 64-bit alpha. Finally.

Adobe finally releases a 64-bit version of Adobe Flash 10 for Linux.

See the announcement or just grab it.

Adobe updates Flash 10 to RC

Adobe updated the Linux Flash 10 Beta to an RC last week. Since I was on vacation, it took me a while to update the .deb in my PPA. Fortunately Adobe changes it's archive name with every new release, so the old package was still working when installed.

Have a look at the new features and the list of fixed bugs of this release.

I updated my Personal Package Archive (PPA) accordingly. If you already added my PPA to your sources list, you'll get the updated flashplugin-nonfreebeta within the next upgrade.

There are still issues with flash sites using the "windowless mode". This seems to be an Firefox issues, which isn't fixed on Ubuntu Hardy's Firefox right now (and most probably won't get fixed before Firefox 3.1). You might want to disable the "windowless" mode via a small configuration file.

Update:

I reported two bugs to the Adobe bug tracker system. Additional to that, you might experience problems with Ubuntu x64, due to the newly introduced dependencies. If you got problems running the RC on Ubuntu x32, please try installing libnss and libcurl and give me a short notice. I don't have a "fresh" Ubuntu right now, to test the dependencies.

Adobe updates Flash 10 Beta

Adobe updated the Linux Flash 10 Beta today.

Fortunately, they fixed the windowless mode, one nasty issue with the previous beta version.

Have a look at the new features and the list of fixed bugs of this release.

I updated my Personal Package Archive (PPA) accordingly. If you already added my PPA to your sources list, you'll get the updated flashplugin-nonfreebeta within the next upgrade.

Flash 10 and Opera 9.5b2 on Ubuntu Hardy

While testing Flash 10 installation success, I remembered having problems with Flash on Opera. It constantly showed some grey boxes and teiling me to "click to activate" which didn't work at all.

Canonical offers a special "partner repository", which contains Opera 9.27. Unfortunately, Opera seems to have some issues with Ubuntu's Flash version (and any newer one, too).

The solution is quite simple: Just update to Opera 2.50b2.

Flash 10 Beta on Ubuntu Hardy

Since a few weeks I'm testing Flash 10 Beta and I'm really happy with it. There are some bugs with online games from time to time, but the overall performance is great. There's better (faster) fullscreen support and it seems Adobe worked really hard on Ubuntu compatibility and the sound issues.

I experienced very few Firefox crashes, even if I'm using the browser up to 16 hours a day, constantly playing at least one flash video.

I recently presented a few workarounds for the annoying Flash bug in Ubuntu Hardy. Since none of the workarounds really solved the issue, I decided to stop using the nspluginwrapper workaround with Flash 9 and keep using the Flash 10 beta. Fortunately, Flash doesn't seem to need libflashsupport any longer, even if your hardware doesn't support hardware mixing.

To make installation of the Flash beta more comfortable, I decided to modify the flashplugin-nonfree package to a flashplugin-nonfreebeta package. Since Flash 10 still crashes with libflashsupport installed, the package will remove it before installing the Flash beta.

I'm neither a Flash nor a packaging guru, if you're willing to give it a try, add the following line to your sources list:

Update the sources and install the package flashplugin-nonfreebeta. Due to Bug #125103 of the Launchpad service, you'll notice a message stating that this is an unsigned package.

I couldn't test the package on amd64 and lpia. Please report any installation issues to the comments, any Flash bugs to Adobe's bug tracker.

Syndicate content