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Snow Leopard Adobe Flash!

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JavaWizKid

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Isn't Snow Leopard supposed to bring hardware acceleration better to the OS? I know adobe flash has never been good in OSX but it is worse in Snow Leopard! I use SMC Fan Control to keep my temps down but the temps rise so rapidly I have to go on 6000rpm to keep it below 70 degrees WTF! In Leopard it was fine on 3000rpm! This is standard definition we are talking about never mind HD!!!!! I'm using a 2.4Ghz Penryn MacBook Pro with an 8600m GT graphics card.
 
JavaWizKid said:
Isn't Snow Leopard supposed to bring hardware acceleration better to the OS? I know adobe flash has never been good in OSX but it is worse in Snow Leopard! I use SMC Fan Control to keep my temps down but the temps rise so rapidly I have to go on 6000rpm to keep it below 70 degrees WTF! In Leopard it was fine on 3000rpm! This is standard definition we are talking about never mind HD!!!!! I'm using a 2.4Ghz Penryn MacBook Pro with an 8600m GT graphics card.
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Flash isn't hardware accelerated. H.264 is.
 
Let's face it: Adobe is ****** at making Flash. It's now just as bad on OS X as on Linux and Windows. This is neither a deficiency of Apple or Snow Leopard. Complain to them.
 
Did you install the latest version from Adobe's website? I think the one that shipped with SL was kind of out-dated. I was having slowness and beachballs in Safari all the time (on a clean install) until I updated the Flash plug-in. Now it works wonderfully, or at least as well as Flash ever worked on Mac OS X.

By the way, does anybody know if Click2Flash has been updated for Snow Leopard? I usually use it to kill all the damn flash ads that trash my battery life...
 
Trepanator said:
Did you install the latest version from Adobe's website? I think the one that shipped with SL was kind of out-dated. I was having slowness and beachballs in Safari all the time (on a clean install) until I updated the Flash plug-in. Now it works wonderfully, or at least as well as Flash ever worked on Mac OS X.

By the way, does anybody know if Click2Flash has been updated for Snow Leopard? I usually use it to kill all the damn flash ads that trash my battery life...
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Yes, go to their site you can download it. I did, works just like in leopard.
 
Flash is terrible on mac, I don't see a difference in SL. Programers need to make their programs work with SL's technologies to get better performance
 
Im just using camino to watch flash videos for the moment being since it uses less cpu than safari when using flash in snow leopard. Is not as slick and fast as safari but at least I'll have some more battery time.
 
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