Adobe Flash Player 10 BETA released!

[vasilis34]

Thx qazwsx! I didn't see any big difference from the previous version. Maybe it's a bit less cpu consuming and I think firefox responds a bit faster on sites with a lot of flash ads, but nothing to be impressed. Despite that it's pretty much the same including video quality.
I am really looking forward to the day that flash in linux will have the same quality as in windows. I can't say though that I am very optimistic about it .

[FuturePilot]

If you have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed, remove it. Extract the libflashplayer.so from the tar.gz archive and move it to /etc/alternatives

sudo mv path/to/flash/libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives

Then link it into /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Just remember that if you decide to go back to version 9 to remove libflashplayer.so from /etc/alternatives and remove the link from /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins

[SunnyRabbiera]

Me I wont be using it till its out of beta...

[scottmuz]

This is definately an improvement. My daughter uses a web site
EducationCity.com which has lots of flash games. Flash 9 on my
my 6 year old PC couldn't cope with many of the games. My CPU was maxing
out. Just tried a few
of the most CPU intensive games with the Flash 10 beta and it is definately and improvement.

[Curtisc]

Seems to be a bit better - I get ~30% CPU instead of 50% when watching videos. Still can't do the on-the-fly resizing at break.com, but I'm glad to see things are getting better.

vasilis34 - unless you really like flash ads, check out the flashblock extension. It prevents any flash from running unless you explicitly tell it to.

[HumanAnarchist]

Got it working on my 64 bit Hardy, but I'm dissapointed of no video for linux 2 support (vl2) with webcams That sucks for sites like www.stickam.com

[swoll1980]

Unless adobe will produce a 64bit version, it makes no diffrence for me at all.
For installing, well, adobe says you must first delete any old flashplugin before installing, but how to install.. I have no clue. I guess copying would be fine, but in that case you will have to know _where_ to copy those files (I do not know).

Edit: No, adobe will not open flasplyer source, but flash documentation.

www.phoronix.com

unpack it and put the .so in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins you will have to use sudo and the mv command or gksu nautilus

[madjr]

ok so we report these bugs or stick with the ones already reported?

see my sign

[cdean]

Got it working on my 64 bit Hardy, but I'm dissapointed of no video for linux 2 support (vl2) with webcams That sucks for sites like www.stickam.com

Could you give a step-by-step of what you did to get it working? I seem to be unable to get it working.

[ubuntu-freak]

Why won't the hardware acceleration work with Compiz? I hope they fix that seeing how popular Compiz is.

Yes, that makes no sense to me. Composite is OpenGL accelerated.

Nathan