[GRLUG] Ubuntu Firefox/Flash problems

[Tim Schmidt]

On 9/23/06, Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > Too bad Adobe isn't very co-operative!  Seriously...  Flash works
> > better under Wine than natively because they put more work into their
> > windows version.  The Linux version of flash depends on an ancient C++
> > library, OSS, runs only on i386, and talks bare X11.  If they were
> > serious about supporting Linux at all, we'd see an SDL version for at
> > least 10 archs.
>
> There's good news.  Adobe has someone rewriting the Linux version of
> Flash Player 9 using new libraries and interfaces.  I found out an
> interview somewhere.  I recall that a beta version is expected early
> next year.

It's not good news.  They're not using sensible interfaces like SDL or
gstreamer, they're writing straight to X11 and ALSA, they're using V4L
v1 (v1!), and a few other horrible decisions.  In two or three years
(the current version of flash for Linux has been around more than 3
years), that one will feel just as dated and crappy as this one does
now.

--tim