Adobe Flash Player
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- formed0
JQuery, etc., and this so called HTML5 stuff had promise, but it's been years and we are still not at the design possibilities of Flash was 12+ years ago.
This "standards mindset" has led to a barrage of generic websites, which has further been perpetuated with WordPress.For high end, design driven sites (a la "custom", NOT standard/generic), Flash was king and has yet to be surpassed. There are some great examples out there, dont get me wrong, but the cost to develop those are insane and stability/flexibility is far from what a single player had.
Adobe probably contributed to it, but Jobs killed it and guaranteed Apple a very profitable market in their app store. There's no other reason why he'd make such a stance. It was business smart and helped Apple to dominate the "app" world and market place.
- Fact remains that ALL other phones supported flash besides the iPhone. You can't say one phone killed itmonospaced
- fate0
If you go through the archives of The F W A .com, you'll see a pretty clear dividing line after the iPhone and then the iPad launch.
- vaxorcist0
Yes, the chrome flash memory leak seems to be the death knell for me, i will try the above method, thsnks!
In my pc laptop, opening a bunch of tabs on chrpme and going to various news websites with flash ads can cause the memory use of a chrone process go slowly use up more and more RAM very predictably till everything gets slow....
- oey0
Fuck Flash!...
Really as you all might know already.
First it was out of date for Firefox.
Installed everything was fine.
Two days later...out of date for Safari.
Installed...everything fine...
Then Firefox...
Today Safari again...That and the instant Update warnings in my System...
WTF?!Seriously WTF?!
- rabbit0
Not trying to sound smart alec, but if you are that dissatisfied with it, you could perhaps uninstall it, or change the auto update settings to 'never update' on install?
I agree. It drives me fucking insane. But what drives me insane at the moment with it, is it crashes Chrome as per:
https://productforums.google.com…
To fix this issue, i posted a reply:
Here is how to fix this ^ problem (if you experience it):
Chrome runs its own version of flash, what fixed it for me was navigating to:
chrome://plugins/In chrome, expanding 'details' (top right) and searching for Flash, the one listed under:
Google\Chrome\Application\39.0.2...Disable this.
I then uninstalled Flash player (need to download the uninstaller from Adobe) from my computer, and re-installed latest Flash player from Adobe like normal onto my computer.
Then I revisited the
chrome://plugins/And ensured the only Flash player that was enabled was the version I just installed (on my windows machine) and not the Chrome installed one (which lives in the Chrome folder structures)
SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32...Restarted Chrome, no more crashes :)
- organicgrid0
Adobe Flash Update Plugs 11 Security Holes
Install ASAP before Adobe Flash cripples your browser!Once Again...Fuck You Adobe!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015…
- organicgrid0
Firefox tiptoes toward a world without Adobe Flash
http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox…
- oey0
Won't install it again.
Fuck it.People send me links that require Flash Player...
Fuck it.
- oey0
https://www.google.de/search?q=m…
There must be a gif somewhere...
- MrBixler0
Completely agree
- hotroddy0
Meffid, was it when using safari? I'm now seeing it but only on safari. Turns out it's Safari is intentionally fucking w flash. ON chrome it works fine.
More here:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/05/17/f…
- hotroddy0
Meffid, was it when using safari? I'm now seeing it but only on safari. Turns out it's Safari is intentionally fucking w flash. ON chrome it works fine.
More here:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/05/17/f…
- raf0
I wrote it a year ago somewhere:
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Let’s get the history straight before nobody remembers anymore how it really happened.
Not running on mobile did not kill Flash, neither did Steve Jobs. When iPhone came about, Flash had already been in agony, kept alive by its usefulness as a video player and a compact ad delivery format that was able to capture more data back than users ever knew.
People don’t remember this now, but by 2006 discussions whether or not Flash was “still ok” were commonplace. Flash-only websites were already a big no-no, it was only ok to use “flash elements” on a page.
In 2007, when iPhone arrived, I worked as a front-end developer and hadn’t opened Flash in months. And I had loved Flash.
Why was it dying, if it was (possibly still is) the better technology?
It never fully integrated with the browser, never stopped being a foreign body in it. Never properly spoke with JS, kept breaking history, didn’t deep-link, had a non-standard right-click menu, made text non-selectable too easy and always opened a new window instead of a new tab. And it was processor heavy like nothing else on my computer. It still spins the fans in my laptop and shrinks its battery time today.
Add CSS Nazis to this who loomed over the internet back then and a general distrust towards letting a single company control so much of the web (which wasn’t baseless, Adobe by then had proved to be more ‘evil’ than Google and Apple together) — and you get the picture.
Another, and when I think of it, probably the main reason of Flash’s demise was that Adobe was so busy appealing to programmers and making Air the next Java, that they completely neglected the crowd who made Flash as big as it was: designers. Neglected? They just showed them the finger, because real money and the future was in the Air. Most good Flash designers I know never picked up on AS 3.0, and many developers never bothered to.
TL;DR: Jobs didn’t kill Flash, he only smelled its stench and noticed before anyone else that Adobe already drove it into the ground.
- evilpeacock0
It's a mess now; most ad networks I have to work with require Actionscript 2 which means running the CS6 version of Flash indefinitely since AS2 support was removed with Adobe's Creative Cloud versions.
Eventually I'll probably have to move Flash CS6 to a virtual machine to keep it running smoothly as new hardware and operating systems come out (just like doing IE testing).