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Flash players

by greg e Jan 2, 2012 1:10PM PST

There has to be a better flash player then Adobe?

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Well

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Jan 2, 2012 8:06PM PST

Since Flash Player is an Adobe product I am not sure what you are asking.

If you are having problems with viewing videos in web sites in your browser, then maybe there is help available, but it is the web site developers themselves that choose to use the Flash Player, and there is nothing you can do about that.

Are you having problems?

Mark

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Nope

by Jimmy Greystone Jan 2, 2012 9:16PM PST

Nope, Adobe's the only real game in town. For a time there was an effort to make a version of Flash for mobile devices, but my general understanding is that it was slow, a serious battery suck, to say that development was glacial in pace would be a compliment, it only worked on specific devices running Windows Mobile 6.5, and even then it never worked very well.

Unlike PDF, Flash isn't exactly an open spec, so reverse engineering it would be rather difficult. Development would probably be pretty similar to what was described above. I will just add that a lot of people who have problems with Flash find relief by disabling the hardware acceleration.

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