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Adobe issues 'Correction regarding hardware acceleration of Flash Player on Mac OS X Lion'

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jul 22nd 2011 at 10:05AM

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Well it's nice to see Adobe owning up to an error, even if the correction is buried on the Flash blog and issued as a midnight missive (OK, they've amended the tech note as well). Remember when Adobe issued a tech note saying hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion? Apparently Adobe was referring to a pre-release version of Lion, as the currently available version of 10.7 in the Mac App Store does indeed support the very same hardware acceleration provided in 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Those fans you hear spinning faster and faster on your Lion-powered machines are just the same Flash player we've all come to know and love since the turn of the century. If you're looking to limit your exposure, there are several good options.



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Yuusharo

There's actually a new version of "ClickToFlash" that is available as a supported Safari extension, and it can be found on Apple's extension page or by the link below. On many supported sites, the plugin will actually replace the flash player with a native HTML5 video player, avoiding the need for flash at all. If you have Perian installed, you can play both the MP4 and FLV versions of supported sites using HTML5. It's fantastic! They also have a new "ClickToPlugin" extension which extends ClickToFlash's functionality to all other browser plugins as well (except for Java, which apparently is a webkit bug and not something the devs can fix until webkit does).

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

FYI, 2.3.1 is a bit buggy on Safari 5.1 on Lion, so I'm sticking with the older 2.3 (Safari 5.0) version of the plugin until it gets fixed.

July 22 2011 at 3:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
puhsitch

Maybe it's not Adobe's fault, but there's definitely something funky going on with MacBook Airs, though. My first gen. is an overheating mess when it comes to Flash. It wasn't great before, but Lion brought it to a whole new level.

July 22 2011 at 10:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
slembcke

For a site that hates flash so much, isn't it a bit hypocritical to have a number of animated flash advertisements on your page? Thank you TUAW for ******* that battery that Apple is trying so hard to save for me. Hah.

July 22 2011 at 10:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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BTBlomberg

I would say that is less an action of the TUAW staff and more related to AOL their parent company. Still ironic.

July 22 2011 at 11:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Victor Agreda Jr

As noted, there are ways to avoid Flash. Editorial content and advertising are not mixed for a reason. For more on the topic, I suggest this: http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4775

July 22 2011 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rjovale

i cant live without clicktoflash :P

July 22 2011 at 10:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LinksAwakener

"Those fans you hear spinning faster and faster on your Lion-powered machines are just the same battery-******* resource hog Flash player we've all come to know and love since the turn of the century."

Amen to that, brother. I had to buy a lapdesk pillow for my MBP for whenever I watch a Flash video. The worst part? I was just hired as a flash developer. ಠ_ಠ

July 22 2011 at 10:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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