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Adobe Suggests Disabled Hardware Acceleration for Flash Player in OS X Lion
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It's because Flash is inefficient and unoptimized. It's been this way for years. Especially on mobile devices.
Reason: Adobe doesn't really care.
Just to be safe. I know its a beta, but i installed the flash 11 beta and my cpu numbers weren't that high when running flash. So I think I'm okay
Pixelmator vs Photoshop crap again? ..come on!
If anyone can get the job done in Pixelmator than they don't need to waste money on Photoshop. It means they don't use two thirds of Photoshop's ability and application. Photoshop's communication with other apps even non-Adobe ones is what trully sets it apart.
Today Photoshop is a lot more than removing that birthmark off bride's face and putting Happy Wedding banners. That was decade and a half ago.
I believe it. Adobe doesn't care. They've had months to prepare Flash for Lion and they did nothing. Hey, that's fine. I'm not loading it on my fresh install of Lion.
I installed Google Chrome and if there's something I need to see that I can't on Safari, I'll fire that up. Flash's final death can't come soon enough for me.
I installed Google Chrome and if there's something I need to see that I can't on Safari, I'll fire that up. Flash's final death can't come soon enough for me.
Playing in the sandbox
You're right, the sandboxing is not turned on right now. It will be turned on in November 2011 for apps submitted to the Mac App Store. It will be easy for Apple to verify that those apps work with sandboxing, and it won't break any existing apps.
Going forward, every MAS app that gets updated will need to follow the sandboxing rules. Also, more and more companies will want to distribute via the MAS. So in a year or two maybe 10% to 30% of the apps on your machine will be sandboxed.
My guess is that sometime in 2013 (?), Apple will announce that in six months, for OS X 10.7.x (x = 5?), all apps must sandbox. There will be a flurry of updates to fix this, some companies will ignore the warning, and when people install 10.7.5 some of their apps will work and the non-updated ones won't.
As an aside, that's why I followed the Rosetta/Quicken anguish with is best described as bemusement. People: a hard rain is coming, and Rosetta/Quicken was just the first few gentle drops.
You're right, the sandboxing is not turned on right now. It will be turned on in November 2011 for apps submitted to the Mac App Store. It will be easy for Apple to verify that those apps work with sandboxing, and it won't break any existing apps.
Going forward, every MAS app that gets updated will need to follow the sandboxing rules. Also, more and more companies will want to distribute via the MAS. So in a year or two maybe 10% to 30% of the apps on your machine will be sandboxed.
My guess is that sometime in 2013 (?), Apple will announce that in six months, for OS X 10.7.x (x = 5?), all apps must sandbox. There will be a flurry of updates to fix this, some companies will ignore the warning, and when people install 10.7.5 some of their apps will work and the non-updated ones won't.
As an aside, that's why I followed the Rosetta/Quicken anguish with is best described as bemusement. People: a hard rain is coming, and Rosetta/Quicken was just the first few gentle drops.
Your comments are misleading (as usual).
Flash is mainly unoptimized on the mac platform. Only 10% of computer userbase. Of that 10%, an even smaller number of people have issues serious enough to make complaints as grand as yours.
You'd have a point if apple had MS's windows market share and the problem still existed. Unfortunately for you and your apple evangelism, this is not the case in Windows.
I tried to give reverse scrolling a chance, but it just doesn't work. It makes perfect sense and is totally natural when you are literally in contact with the content on a touch screen, but when you separate the content from the touch surface the metaphor of pushing something around on a table doesn't hold up.
At least not for me.
At least not for me.
who would have thought an Apple user thinking on his own
but really - iPad already outsell the Macintosh - wait I mean MAC - we can not use big words these days...
it is going to become iLion.
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Steve said we are in the post mouse era so everyone stopped using them.
But it's ok for Apple to do that or anything else that they want. Just blame the other companies and all it well.
Good logic and viewpoint.
It will become iLion over time.
Excellent post. We have freedom of choice. And as long as people keep buying everything that Apple makes, it's not going to change. They will give us what Steve wants regardless of what we want.
A good way to look at it, IMHO.
Apple won't be the driving force in killing of flash, they only have a miniscule share of the market.
You think they did this on accident? Calculated move. I'm really po'd about the comment about the reverse scrolling. One of the first things I did when I loaded Dev 1 was turn it off, but where does Adobe get off putting a comment about the user experience overall (outside of Flash) in an issues document? Is it an issues document or a review of the OS?!
Most other companies seem to be able to write efficient, well-enough optimized code for OS X, 10% market share or not.
Nope, I used Linux, which has an even worse implementation of Flash than OS X has. And back in those days, it was much, much worse. We were at least 2 versions behind the official Windows version.
Yet newgrounds.com worked perfectly then, in Konqueror 1.0 of all browsers, using a Netscape plug-in reimplementation that was far from flawless.
My point wasnt about whether or not Adobe could write proper code. It just not in their top priority to cater to a platform (and users) thats basically a footnote in the industry.
I opened the three sites, each in a different tab. They all played together at the same time. The processors barely blinked and there was barely increase in RAM use. ???
That was on my 2010 MP running Lion. Then I tried the same thing on my late 2008 MBP running Lion. Same thing, no problem. ???
Well then it really shouldn't be anyone else's top priority either, and yet, other people seem to be doing the job anyway.
What does that say about Adobe?
What makes you think they didn't test Flash on Lion ? What makes you think they haven't checked their code ? What makes you think they haven't submitted bugs to Apple for the VDA framework which went unfixed ?
Why are you jumping on Adobe and yet not on Apple ?
What insight do you have that we don't ? Or do you even have any insight ?
But then, that's a problem with Flash for some of us. We are at Adobe's whim as far as whether or not our platform of choice is worthy of their efforts.
When you are pushing a cross platform solution, maybe you should have the same quality standards on the number two platform as the number one platform. Let alone number three and below.