are you happy with flash 10.1?

[bpad10]

Some sites were very smooth, while others were choppy at best and sounds didn't match actions.....

With that said, I agree that this is beta. From the rumors I've read the 2nd installment of the 2.2 update should help AND Adobe is still working on it.

Jobs has absolutely NOTHING to say until flash is officially released (and who truly cares what he thinks anyway....His opinions mean absolutely nothing to me) we own a better product than he could ever offer....dancedroid

It's amazing that we have what we have on these devices.....We can do so much more with these phones than anyone who owns an Iphone, blackberry, etc...all great phones, don't get me wrong, they're just not DROIDS!!!dancedroid

 

[EbE404]

What is the firefox browser called?

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Flashblock.

I can't find it in the android market place. Where can I find it


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...OK...

aminaked was talking about Firefox on a PC.

It has an add-on called Flashblock.

Flashblock works similarly to ClickToFlash on a Mac.

They both only load Flash (on a PC or Mac) when the user clicks on an icon indicating that there is content available-it blocks it otherwise.

This behavior (again, on a Mac or PC), is how the On-Demand setting works in Android browsers when Flash is loaded.

There is a Firefox mobile browser called Fennec that is in pre-Alpha release, but that has nothing to do with this discussion.

 

[aminaked]

Steve is probably going to learn from this flash and make it much better and smoother.

No, Apple doesn't want to give up control of the things that run on the iPhone. They want people to just use apps because of $$$. They even stopped developers from porting Flash apps into Apple store apps.

Looking forward to HTML5 or whatever is next.

The estimate is that the HTML5 spec will be finalized in...wait for it...10 years. Not kidding.

How long do you think we have to wait for the final version again

I thought it was supposed to be in the market yesterday! I thought I read someplace that Nexus One users already have it.

 

[chesspokerface]

I hate to say it, but Jobs was right. Flash sucks. I got the office 10.1 after the 2nd 2.2 OTA update, and Flash has been worthless. Everytime I've tried to use it the audio has been okay, but the video has been extremely choppy.

I feel scammed by Verizon. I bought my Droid being led to believe they would have Flash for it in early 2010, but now that it's out, it doesn't even work. The nerve of Verizon to even push this crap out as a non beta official release...:icon_evil:

 

[daendres]

Well, Ze End of Ze World runs really smooth for me, and 3 fps porn doesn't really bother me, so yeah, I'm pretty happy with Flash 10.1.

All joking aside, I'm glad Google didn't just say "It's bad, so you're not allowed to have it." I think that Adobe and Google made a valiant effort to make this slow, antiquated, overused technology somewhat usable on a mobile platform.

Also, I've found that clocking to 1 GHz seems to be a good sweet spot for Flash... sorta the midpoint between "too slow" and "my hands are on fire."

 

[EbE404]

I feel scammed by Verizon. I bought my Droid being led to believe they would have Flash for it in early 2010, but now that it's out, it doesn't even work. The nerve of Verizon to even push this crap out as a non beta official release...:icon_evil:

Verizon has really nothing to do with this. Android supports Flash- and that's pretty much the beginning and end of Google, Motorola and Verizon's role in the whole thing. They said they would work (when it was available)-they never said it would work well.

Release delays, poor performance and any other issues with Flash are Adobe's issue.

 

[chesspokerface]

I feel scammed by Verizon. I bought my Droid being led to believe they would have Flash for it in early 2010, but now that it's out, it doesn't even work. The nerve of Verizon to even push this crap out as a non beta official release...:icon_evil:

Verizon has really nothing to do with this. Android supports Flash- and that's pretty much the beginning and end of Google, Motorola and Verizon's role in the whole thing. They said they would work (when it was available)-they never said it would work well.

Release delays, poor performance and any other issues with Flash are Adobe's issue.

If you bought a 3D tv from me for a lot of money based on my advertisement that it would work with 3D material, but every time you tried to watch 3D movies it went at less then 1 FPS, would you not be a little bit pissed at me? "Hey man, I told you it would work, I didn't promise it would work well"

Seriously though, there needs to be better alternatives than the crap that adobe puts out

 

[chucktown]

flash 10.1.92.8

My Froyo 2.2 loaded today and I was waiting to play an AM station requiring flash. Now it plays but very slowly with garbled words....like a 78 record at 331/3 speed. Called Verizon the tech's phone did the same thing. The downloaded version was 10.1.72.7. I found a sight with an updated flash 10.1.92.8 and downloaded it but I cannot locate the 10.1.72.7 on the phone to remove it and replace with the 92.8. Where is this embedded or hidden and has anyone else tried the flash 10.1.92.8? By the way the radio site is WTMA.com and click listen now....would love to know if it works for you?

 

[listenman20]

flash 10.1.92.8 works with that station. for me. i found flash in settings>applications>manage applications. if it doesn't show up in "downloaded" then try looking in "all" it's listed as adobe flash player 10.1.

 

[EbE404]

I feel scammed by Verizon. I bought my Droid being led to believe they would have Flash for it in early 2010, but now that it's out, it doesn't even work. The nerve of Verizon to even push this crap out as a non beta official release...:icon_evil:

Verizon has really nothing to do with this. Android supports Flash- and that's pretty much the beginning and end of Google, Motorola and Verizon's role in the whole thing. They said they would work (when it was available)-they never said it would work well.

Release delays, poor performance and any other issues with Flash are Adobe's issue.

If you bought a 3D tv from me for a lot of money based on my advertisement that it would work with 3D material, but every time you tried to watch 3D movies it went at less then 1 FPS, would you not be a little bit pissed at me? "Hey man, I told you it would work, I didn't promise it would work well"

Seriously though, there needs to be better alternatives than the crap that adobe puts out

I get your point, but that analogy is really only appropriate if there was another, similar device available that did work as advertised and I felt that you made made an inferior product. My point is that you can't blame a hardware manufacturer or vendor for poor performance of third-party software like this unless it can be shown that it is something native to their device that causes the problem. To pick up your analogy, it's kind of like blaming your TV if you watch a bad TV show.

Now, whether Verizon should have hyped it (I didn't see much of that personally, other than saying they were offering something Apple wasn't) and if you feel slighted by that somehow is another issue, and you are certainly entitled to your opinion about that.

As far as alternatives, it's going to depend on what exactly you use it for. Personally, I didn't miss it before I had it, and now that I do, I only use it if I really need to due to certain websites including Flash in places they really shouldn't. Personally I don't play Flash games, and video is certainly becoming less of an issue each day.

On the subject of games, I read an interesting article some time ago from a Flash developer point out an inherent weakness in Flash on mobile devices. It was one that I hadn't thought about until then, but made perfect sense. Navigation and control-many games use controls that are simply not possible on a mobile device, such as cursor hovers, rollovers and right-clicks. In order to make these games functional, the entire game would need to be recoded anyway, and that might have some major impact on the game and how people use it. In many cases it would require hosting multiple versions of the same game, and the operation of those versions would be different.

 

[EbE404]

...Now, whether Verizon should have hyped it (I didn't see much of that personally, other than saying they were offering something Apple wasn't) and if you feel slighted by that somehow is another issue, and you are certainly entitled to your opinion about that.

OK, I'm going to retract that part of my post after coming across this in my RSS:

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/droid-2-flash-ad1.jpg

"No more empty windows or half-loaded pages." Um, yeah.

I just got a whole lot less sympathetic to Motorola on this subject.

 

[Bill Cauley]

Flash Player 10.1.92.8 works fine for me.

I was waiting for Flash so that I could listen to my favorite talk radio stations. It does the job well! There have been no problems!

 

[Robin W]

sorry for being so lame, but i can't find flash in the market. Do i need to download from internet on computer? Thanks in advance!

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[Bill Cauley]

Flash 10.1

Once your phone receives the upgrade to FRG22D, the Flash 10.1 download appears in the market place. Did it yesterday, and all is well!

 

[Robin W]

thanks bill, i do have the upgrade but still can't locate in market. I tried adobe flash 10.1, flash, only could find adobe flash showcase. Any suggestions?

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