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Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Re: Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Post by chaosprophet »

I think selectively disabling flash is an excellent move. For a lot of people the only flash heavy site they use on their phones is youtube or hulu, so the add-on should be a perfect solution to the piece of crap that the Flash runtime is.

Re: Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Post by ericb »

I feel like the software Adobe puts out is extraordinarily bad and goes unrepaired. Do others have this impression too? I've never used Photoshop--is it better?

When I was on Windows, I found the Acrobat plugin to be a hog and hated looking at pdf's. On a mac, without Adobe software involved, pdf's are pleasant. Almost nothing makes my Macbook's fan run except Flash. However, YouTube never seems to do this, so is it just that Flash gives developers more rope to hang their apps with?

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Post by tjogin »

ericb wrote: post #3

I feel like the software Adobe puts out is extraordinarily bad and goes unrepaired. Do others have this impression too? I've never used Photoshop--is it better? When I was on Windows, I found the Acrobat plugin to be a hog and hated looking at pdf's. On a mac, without Adobe software involved, pdf's are pleasant. Almost nothing makes my Macbook's fan run except Flash. However, YouTube never seems to do this, so is it…

Photoshop used to be better. But with time it has become terrible. It seems as though Adobe focus mostly on putting out new features, and not enough on just making present features work better, faster and more reliably.

Re: Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Post by andyn »

ericb wrote: post #3

I feel like the software Adobe puts out is extraordinarily bad and goes unrepaired. Do others have this impression too? I've never used Photoshop--is it better? When I was on Windows, I found the Acrobat plugin to be a hog and hated looking at pdf's. On a mac, without Adobe software involved, pdf's are pleasant. Almost nothing makes my Macbook's fan run except Flash. However, YouTube never seems to do this, so is it…

Agreed.

Adobe seems to focus on putting out new features first and fixing existing work second. I've seen it before in companies whose development schedules are dictated by sales. "Hey, I spoke to this guy, he said he'd buy 100 units if we ...".

Out of interest, I've recently discovered the Sumatra PDF viewer:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

It's open source, for Windows and faster than Foxit, the reader usually mentioned as an alternative in this situation.

Re: Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Post by megamark16 »

They do allow the option to enable flash through the about:config page, they're just disabling it by default. Flash has always been a little shaky on my N810, but it's not really a powerhouse of a device, so I never expected it to handle much more than a youtube video or flash based menus.

Re: Maemo Firefox disables Flash

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Post by oneplusone »

ericb wrote: post #3

I feel like the software Adobe puts out is extraordinarily bad and goes unrepaired. Do others have this impression too? I've never used Photoshop--is it better? When I was on Windows, I found the Acrobat plugin to be a hog and hated looking at pdf's. On a mac, without Adobe software involved, pdf's are pleasant. Almost nothing makes my Macbook's fan run except Flash. However, YouTube never seems to do this, so is it…

Personally I think Photoshop has gotten a lot better with the latest releases. The interface is worlds better. Unfortunately this only applies to the Windows version of Photoshop. The Mac version is a stinking pile of crap that I refuse to use.
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