Flash player 9 beta available for linux

Khannie

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

declan_lgs

In the mean time, I used http://adobe.com/go/wish to ask Adobe to "Free that spec or I for one will never touch SWF". Too my surprise, they replied! And whataya know, they took me for stupid and assumed I meant free as in...free

Hello Declan,

I hope this will help:
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/faq/

"There are absolutely no access or deployment fees required to use the
Macromedia Flash File Format Specification."

Thank you for contacting Adobe

I meant free as in freedom

As it is, it takes A LOT of extra effort to build a free (as in
freedom) flash player, since the most recent specs are unusable (due
to it's licensing
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/faq/#item-1-8).
Such a player would/might be useful *at least* for embedded devices
and for obscure operating environments and architectures.

As it is, I'm staying the hell away from SWF. I look forward to
producing an operating system - a free operating system (based on GNU
and Linux) and I'm unable to ship a very capable flash player (maybe
gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ , but those guys are having A
LOT of needless trouble implementing features from the latest specs
due to the licensing, and even then I would be indirectly supporting
SWF)).

I'm not asking for ye to "open source" the flash player (even though
some people ask for that, I don't believe it's what we need. What we
need wouldn't require that much effort on Adobe's behalf) - but to at
least reevaluate those licensing conditions *to the specs*.

It's amazing how differently ye do things to the good W3C.

Have a nice day, keep me posted

No reply yet, I don't fully expect one.

I ain't a fan of Flash/SWF or Adobe (duh!). I'm using and following the development of the GNU Flash Player, gnash. It's not all that useful yet tbh, the only SWFs that seem to work flawlessly are ads! But they're get there...

When this beta was release, this was posted to the gnash-dev list:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/index.php?p=148

Congratulations, Gnash team! Your competition has encouraged Adobe to
actually support the Linux market (though they're still ignoring x64).

The release notes mention a few minor enhancements to the language.

heh

Anyhoo... No Adobe flash player for me.

Khannie

Ach, tbh, I just want it for the occasional lol that flash player 7 doesn't support (been using firefox through wine for flash 8 only stuff). Didn't know about gnash. Might give that a whirl just for kicks.

Rambo

Khannie wrote:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

I am using Firefox 2.0 and FlashPlayer 9 on Linux REDHAT 4 AS Update 4
Has anybody notice when browsing www.rte.ie/news/
while scrolling the mouse it will get stuck on a Flash player Object I find it annoying, It happens on every website

This happened in Firefox 1.5.07 Flashplayer 7 as well
Anybody got a fix for this.

declan_lgs

Rambo wrote:

I am using Firefox 2.0 and FlashPlayer 9 on Linux REDHAT 4 AS Update 4
Has anybody notice when browsing www.rte.ie/news/
while scrolling the mouse it will get stuck on a Flash player Object I find it annoying, It happens on every website

This happened in Firefox 1.5.07 Flashplayer 7 as well
Anybody got a fix for this.

Update to latest CV-..wait.

ok I'm done

Rambo

declan_lgs wrote:

Update to latest CV-..wait.

ok I'm done

SO do you have the same Problem i gave Adobe a Email