Still waiting for Flash

Posted Mar 11, 2008 22:29 UTC (Tue) by nedrichards (subscriber, #23295)
Parent article: Still waiting for Flash

The proprietory flash is old and buggy? True last year perhaps but the latest 9.0 v115 release
is the same as that for Windows and OS X. I'm not sure how much newer you'd like it to be. As
for the buggy bit, well there YMMV a bit more.

The core point that it's closed source so it can't be fixed by anyone other than Adobe is a
fine one though. I wise Gnash and Swfdec every bit of luck.

Still waiting for Flash

Posted Mar 12, 2008 14:20 UTC (Wed) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

And it only works in Gecko-based browsers.

Still waiting for Flash

Posted Mar 13, 2008 14:47 UTC (Thu) by nedrichards (subscriber, #23295) [Link]

I have used it in an Opera 9.5 snapshot. But My Mileage Has Varied so significantly from
machine to machine and snapshot to snapshot that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

Still waiting for Flash

Posted Mar 13, 2008 17:16 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link]

Every 3rd or 4th Flash video I play in Firefox with Adobe Flash 9.0v115 is silent (or) crashes the browser (or) sucks 100% CPU without doing anything (or) something else. It's not buggy videos, because after restarting firefox the same video will (usually) play fine. So I guess I don't see much different between Adobe Flash and Gnash, except there is hope that Gnash might someday be reliable.

Still waiting for Flash

Posted Mar 14, 2008 3:14 UTC (Fri) by afalko (guest, #37028) [Link]

Proprietary flash has been working extremely well on my boxen for the last year and a half. I
honestly haven't stumbled on a major bug with the exception of losing sound in UT2004 after
going to a flash website. Full screen on youtube even works, which is pleasantly surprising. 

One way or another, it does not sit well with me to be using a closed-source app frequently.
This article has encouraged me to give Gnash a shot :).