Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux Is Available

[yonas Abraham]

On 10/19/06, Brian Gaynor <briang at pmccorp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:14 -0400, fredex wrote:
> > Works nicely for me with Konqueror (on Centos 4.4). Works not so nicely with Firefox 1.5.0.7.
> > Which isn't to say it doesn't work, it's just,... odd. Playing a .swf file
> > on my local hard drive by doing "open | file" in Firefox works fine. Browsing
> > to a web sitre with flash files on it is weird: Firefox gets horirbly slow,
> > has trouble rendering the page fully, may lag for many seconds (or even minutes)
> > before starting the video. Switching to another desktop and back seems to
> > expedite things, but hititng the BACK arrow or attempting to close the browser
> > is also extrmeely slow. Once Flash starts playing, though, flash itself seems
> > to work fine, i t's just the Firefox browser that seems to be very slow.
> >
> > anybody else seen this?
>
> Working very well for me in Firefox 1.5.0.7/Rawhide. Not seeing any of
> the slowness/weirdness you describe and I can finally see video from
> sites that require a version of Flash greater than 7 :)

actually I was about to test mine and couldn't remember which sites I
had problem that require flash player > 7. Can you share with me any
site that require FP 8+ so that I can test my plugin??

thanks