I know that it's only 2008 and 64 bit systems are all a bit new, however I would have thought that proper x64 support would be here by now. There is a cryptic message on their website "We expect to provide native support for 64-bit platforms in an upcoming release of Flash Player following Flash Player 10." Does that mean an updated version 10, or do we have to wait for 3 years for version 11.

Ho hum.

The absolutely great thing about the whole silverlight thing, is that all of their adverts still seem to be sprinkled liberally throughout the t'interweb, as swf files...

Tried the beta of silverlight, couldn't quite get it to work, without banjaxing my system, nuff said...

Silver shite more like. Useless...

It is getting silly. Yesterday, I was observing junior who was trying to play the flash games off BBC website on a 1GHz Geode. It was horrible, the animation was chunky, the effects skipping all over the place and so on. All of that on a machine that could have run old good Doom 1 (and 2) in full screen and have enough resources to fold a couple of units of folding at home in the background. Total yuck. In fact it handles flash video perfectly fine so it is the _LOCAL_ bytecode execution which is the problem. It is horribly slow. So what do they do instead of improving on that? Add more crap. C'mon there is enough crap in this crapulostic framework already, how about actually making it work properly for a change.

I want a pause, a stop and a mute button (or similar) that are _unconditionally_ working! For every Flash app, including audio-only apps without a GUI. And a way to easily limit CPU/GPU usage because I don't want to have a fan running at high speed on my notebook just because somebody didn't know how to code their ad correctly to not use 100% CPU continuously.

"He pointed to the fact that tools for Flash Player run on Windows and Mac"

unless the Mac is an iPhone...

I went to Adobe's online store to look at purchasing some upgrades. I was greeted with a 100% Flash web page having a MacOS 9 look & feel. It was slow, mouse scrolling didn't work, and... nevermind. I don't feel like buying anymore.

"So after all this wait, have they finally fixed the longstanding bug under Firefox/Linux with the flash always appearing on top of other div layers?"

Yep. Well, in the release candidate it was anyway, but only with Firefox 3 not Firefox 2. Not sure about other browsers.

In some cases Flash performance improves after its private cookies are deleted.

Have a look at the article "Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer"...

http://tinyurl.com/4ox8b6

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installed ver 10 and about:plugins says its the same old version 9

typical POS QA processes