Emmy Huang

Great news. Do you have any information on when a linux version will be available?

Thanks!

Congrats! Now all I need to do is buy a Mac!

I hope this isn't a dumb question, but is there a Universal version of the Standalone Player? ie. the player when I test publish in Flash? If not, any word on when that might be available?

Steven - no new news at this time. Hang in there ... we are indeed working towards a public beta on Labs and things look pretty good. Check Mike's blog for progress: blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf

Warren - it is expected to ship with Flash authoring in CS3.

a) flash 7 for linux is horrid.

b) if you can put flash 9 on an intel-based mac, you should be able to do it for an intel-based linux distro -- they can't be that different...

c) the reason you should syncronize your releases on ALL platforms (linux, bsd, mac os, winders) is coming and its called "Vista". i really believe that people won't be moving there in the same kind of numbers as in the past simply because it requires WAY more hardware ($$$$) and will break too much of their software (more $$$$)

hello!
flash 9 for linux! will be out by 2007, come on guys you could do better, why do all the software companys treat linux users like this! its so sad but at the same time its very motivating. no wonder so many people write there own sofware and give it off for free. thanks Adobe

I couldn't see the other flash players at PurchaseShareware.. Emmy, can you point me to the right page?

Sigh.. I guess no one at Adobe actually read these comments on a regular basis (well, as long as they are busy with the Linux version I think I can forgive them! :-)

Where's the LINUX version! Guys, you sucks! You're not better than Microsoft! The Linux community will really hate you...

Dennis - yes I agree that moving forward we need to see what is required to sim ship on all platforms. That is the goal. With the v9 port, we are jumping from v7 to v9 and it is a bit of work. If you would like to follow the current development, you can visit Mike's blog at blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf for his account of how the port is going.

Steph - the purchaseshareware site is spam on my blog. I periodically clean them up, but apparently this one slipped through.

i'm sure there are many more linux users than intel mac users. i'd be happy with a v7 that doesn't kill my cpu and plays nicely with other audio apps.

Great, a brand new Flash Player for the huge amount Intel based Macs users, and the Linux users are still suffering from the pain that Flash Player 7 caused.
I really can't understand why Adobe is doing this to us. Must be some kind of secret agreement between Microsoft and Adobe.

> i'm sure there are many more linux users than intel mac users. i'd be happy with a v7 that doesn't kill my cpu and plays nicely with other audio apps.

I completely agree with that statement. Haven't they got more developers? Haven't they got the money? It's just unbelievable!

> I really can't understand why Adobe is doing this to us. Must be some kind of secret agreement between Microsoft and Adobe.

If there is a secret, they wouldn't tell us...

Hopefully we will see a flash player 9 in 2007.

Great, now 90% of web sites with flash are rendered unusable by linux users. wooo hooo!

The Flash 9 UB doesn't work at all. Its a piece of shit that causes my browser to crash constantly. Adobe's support of their flash player makes me wish I could contact Microsoft instead.

Byron,

If you have an issue with Flash Player, please report it to: www.adobe.com/go/wish

thanks
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Hello Emmy,

I bought an intelmac after checking the flashplayer 9 browserplugin performance in the store, which was amazingly quick, but now at home sadly find out the flash 9 standalone player is very, very much slower. Is that because the standaloneplayer is not for intelmacs (yet) and if so by which date you imagine this will be?
Or is there a better standalone player available elsewhere?

Many thanks for your answer,

Sim

I have a number of SWF files that were provided by the publishing company of the textbook I use to teach one of my classes. I used these on my older Mac PowerBook G4 running 10.3.9 with Powerpoint:mac 2004 without too many problems. I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro (Intel CPU) and now the SWF file format is no longer recogized by PPT. NB that I have the Macromedia Education Suite installed that includes Flash 8.

The available documentation on the web suggests downloading and installing the newest version of the Flash Player (v9), realesed as a UB image, which I did. This did not fix the problem. In fact, it appears that the newer player did not even install on my system properly.

Can anybody give me some help on how to "fix" or work around this problem?

Many thanks for any answers...
Glen

Why is there a Universal version of Flash for Intel Macs AND a separate PowerPC version for Power PC Macs? According to Apple, (http://www.apple.com/universal/) Universal means one version for both platforms.

I have not been able to make the ub of 9.0.20 to work on either of two puters. One is a macbook pro, one is a plain white macbook. The last known working config was Mac os X 10.4.6 and Flash Player 8.0.27.0 . Installing the 9.0.20 thoroughly hosed both the laptops and after about 10 hours of work I still haven't been able to get it to work. Symptom is that all flash content is replaced with white and Adobe's flash version test page cannot discover that flash is installed. Extra annoying is that I have a third un-upgraded machine with the same setup as one of the broken ones that actually works and no amount of file copying to the broken one seems to fix the breakage.

I have about 30 years of experience with computers in a research environment. This kind of stuff shouldn't be rocket science. How come something this simple can break so hard on multiple machines?

- Intrica

Hmmm, which is a higher priority for a commercial company, making the software compatible for the proprietary software of a major computer company, or making it compatible for a free, open-source OS?...hmmm, DUH! I have nothing against Linux, but you can't assume it's any kind of priority for ANY major company to make ANYTHING compatible qith it AT ALL, EVER. You should be thankful Linux has any version of anything at all. Jeez.

Hi Emmy, As with several other Intel iMac users, after upgrading to MacOS X 10.4.8 I discovered that Flash Player had also been upgraded to 9.0.20.0. This would all be fine if this version worked -- but under both Safari 2.0.4. and FireFox *some* .swf files will not load (Safari reports a "plug-in cancelled" message). I would revert to the previous version of Flash Player (as suggested at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2520074
-- but I cannot find the installer. What to do?

I am finding that Flash 9.0.20.0 (or whatever it is) for Intel Macs doesn't display anything in Firefox 2.0. It works fine in Safari.

I think the Intel Flash plugin may be somewhat crashy:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353046

14 April 2007

I just bought an iMac 24. For a week I used Safari and Flash Player worked fine.

All of a sudden it no longer works. I have tried downloading it and installing it, but it doesn't seem to install and it does not work.

Can you PLEASE help me?

Thanks.

Hi i have a imac G4 running mac OSX 10.4.10. The latest flash will not install, it get to 4 items remaing and just 'hangs' for hours. Im using the latest firefox. I thought it had something to do with the latest till i tunes and new quicktime as flash hasent worked since. Searching other forums it seems pretty clear its not the itunes quicktime thing that knocked out flash from websites. But as flash wont install im flashless...

any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

i ahve tried to dowload the latest flas player but its so long
i left the computer so,it can download and i came back after 30 mins and it was srill trying to downalod
what should i do help me
coz it the stupid thing does not load in to my compurter the i wont be able to watch stuff online