Filed under: Internet, Software Update, Leopard
Flash player 9 now Leopard compatible
Adobe has released an update to Flash Player 9, which fixes an issue with flash uploads in Leopard. If you use Flickr's multi-upload feature or other sites that take advantage of the FileReference.upload() function, it is definitely worth installing this update. Make sure to run the uninstaller (linked in the release notes) before installing the new version.In addition to fixing the Leopard upload issue, the new release candidate prerelease (say that three times fast!) features, among other things, H.264 video support, HE-ACC audio support, scalable full-screen mode and multi-core support for vector rendering.
Thanks Patrick!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jaxim said 10:00AM on 11-01-2007
Too bad the iPhone doesn't have flash player support. That's on of the things I'm waiting for before I buy an iPhone.
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iDarbert said 11:01AM on 11-01-2007
I wonder when they will fix the fact that when you right-click a flash movie it "freezes", there was some point in the past (a Flash Player 8 Beta) where you could right-click on a flash and it would keep playing instead of having it's video stopped and it's audio going on just to catch back when the contextual menu disappears.
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autoy said 12:32PM on 11-01-2007
The CPU consumption is still outrageously high. It's amazing how Adobe gets away with this POS.
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required said 12:35PM on 11-01-2007
For those that do not know about flash privacy: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html
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R. Knight said 1:05PM on 11-01-2007
Just to let everyone know something I just ran into. If you are a standard user running FileVault or you are in an administrator account and you have FileVault turned on another account this will not install. You need to be in the FileVaulted account thats been change it to an administrator for this to work.
Does anyone know where I can let Adobe know about this?
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Mark S said 1:53PM on 11-01-2007
Oddly the version numbers are different on a PPC and Intel Mac after using the same installer. Apparently the PPC install is one number lower.
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PowerLlama said 2:36PM on 11-01-2007
So flash still runs like crap on a mac? great.
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xbird said 7:07PM on 11-01-2007
@ PowerLlama
Absolutely not, flash is awesome in Leopard with Safari 3 and is one of my best reasons for upgrading. I don't even understand why this post is necessary, nobody ever said you need an Adobe flash plug-in and that person with skyrocketing cpu, is not giving you an accurate idea.
I can (finally!) watch a Youtube movie with the Safari 3 window out of focus and not have the frame-rates plummet. Flash seems way more snappy overall, the experience is now nearly similar to flash on windows. Even other webapps, like google maps, are much smoother than ever.
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Lon Lawrence said 8:35PM on 11-11-2007
I tried visiting the National Geographic site's "daily dozen" photos and my Safari 3 (leopard) kept crashing, blaming the Flash in a popup window. I uninstalled, then installed the new version, same thing happens. Flash sucks.
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Raul Riera said 12:34PM on 12-03-2007
Actually I am still having problems with Safari 3 and Adobe Flash, I created a Flex upload application and it works great on Firefox and IE but on Safari, Flash wont dispatch a few events causing the application to simple dont upload anything.
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