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Anyone having difficulty with flash videos in Fx3?
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is anyone else having a hard time playing flash videos in firefox 3?
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Inappropriate?Which sites videos, can you post some examples and descriptions of the issues? Also, which OS are you on?
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Inappropriate?Sorry for hijacking, but Flash video can be quite problematic for me (Mac OS 10.4.11, FF 3.0.6). Regardless of configuration, it tends play sluggishly and when in full screen it fails to detect mouse movement (see Bug 435868 ).
My only work-around is to use Safari for most of my flash video viewing. I've experienced this in both Flash 9 and 10 and in all Gecko-based browsers (FF3, Flock, Camino, Songbird...) tested except Firefox 2. I am using a MacBook from the last generation to run Tiger (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor) with 2GB of ram.
Thank you for listening!
I’m frustrated
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This is actually an issue with Flash itself. After talking to a long-term flash developer friend of mine, he pointed out that Adobe targets Windows for performance. Here's a suggestion: run VMWare Fusion and run Flash in Firefox on windows. Even though it's in a virtual machine (and therefore should be slower), it will run much faster because the flash is on windows (even though it's in Firefox). This is just a fact of life, unless Adobe shapes up. -
Thank you so much for providing some closure on this issue. I'll see how much nagging I can give Adobe :).
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As a fellow flash video watcher (Hulu) on Mac, I know all too well about the perf issues. I'm rooting for Silverlight, it seems to work great (at least with Netflix) on the mac.
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Yeah, Hulu's a really good example of this. Hey, if I understood it correctly, I think I might've read something about Google starting an open-source competitor. If that's the case, any thoughts on that?
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Thomas, I had just been informed that the performance issue is indeed related to Adobe Flash, but the mouse issue can be solved by Firefox developers (see the link in my reply). Do you disagree with this?
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I'm not familiar with that bug.
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Would you have any idea as to why it hasn't been given a look or been updated (the bug is listed as PowerPC, I'm experiencing it on an Intel MacBook)? I've been experiencing this since I started using FF3, as well as other newer versions of Gecko-based browsers (Camino, Songbird, Flock) in my troubleshooting, but not in Firefox 2. I'm not a developer, but I suspect it's related to the Gecko rendering engine (that should also be updated, only Firefox is listed in the bug).
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Feel free to sign up for a free bugzilla account and comment in the bug, however, bugzilla is not a support tool so don't ask for personalized assistance. The only thing you can do is provide input as to how you're seeing the bug (platform, configuration, etc).
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I've already provided my information in the Bugzilla entry, but I guess I'm just frustrated that it's stagnated in spite of my attempts to encourage discussion of it.
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Inappropriate?forget flash... any website implementing flash doesn't want to be seen
I had to DL Flash from filehippo, because whenever I got it from adobe.com it failed- corrupt file or not recognized... wait, no- that's an epic fail...:\
I’m i hate flash
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