Here Is How You Fix The Flash Player Problem
Here is the situation. The Intel Machines Apple released come loaded with a Universal Binary Flash Player. This allows Safari which is a Univerals Binary App to to run natively on the new Intel achitecture. The problem is that this Player gets overwritten very easily with marcomedia's Flash Player 8 (which in NOT UniBin) when you install other programs like Flash, Dreamweaver etc. Or simply get an error and make the mistake of downloading the "old" player from Marcomedia
When this happens Safari will no longer view Flash in its native run mode. One fix has been explained here. The rosetta fix. This simply turns Safari into a PowerPC app, runs it through the rosetta translation and slows down considerabley. But you can view flash because the faulty plugin does its thing
NOTE: until applications are released that are native UniBin macs you may notice that apps (non apple) on your machine run a bit slower than they should, or that you would expect. This is becasue they are, by default running through Rosetta. This is the same situation as when macs first became PowerPC's. Apps ran through a translation alogrithim (whihc Rosetta also is) allowing old software to talk to new hardware. Remember Speed Doubler? This was simply a BETTER 3rd party translation algorithim, taht worked over the one mac wrote and installed. It "doubled your speed" because it was just a better, faster translator. Incidetally. Rosetta is far superior little bugger that caches code as it goes along .... blah blah Your impressions may vary given what system speed you migrated from .... I digress)
The reason Explorer and other Browser Apps view flash is that they are already non UniBin apps and their plugins run fine, anything you downlaod and potentially overwrite makes no difference.
SO HERE IS THE WAY TO REALLY FIX IT! Without resorting to Rosetta. And I thank a variety of sources for this work around. What you need to do is reintall the OS. YIKES! Don't Panic. This is what I was going to do, because what we need is the orginal flash player.plugin. Luckily, I didn't resort to that too quickly.
What you need to do is extract the plugin from the install packets without running an install. So Download Pacifist.
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/s...tion=search&str=pacifist&plt[]=macosx&x=0&y=0
Load it up, slot in Disc on to the System OS that came with the computer. Wait. It will allow you to access the Mac OS Install files, when the CD spins up. It will take a bit to load them up Use the find function (top left) to seach for flash Player. It will locate it. Extract it (top right) to the desktop. Go to ~/library/Internet Plugins. take the old flash player out (save it anywhere as a bacjup just in case) and drop in the new one. Relaod Safari. Everything is fix and running natively.
NOTE: why macromedia does not have this themselves, or why apple doesn't have a download for it plastered all over their homepage I don't know. Things don't always go as smoothly as one would like.
