Mac PowerPC & Flash 10

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Flash Player 10 is very much broken on older Mac computers as of March 2009. I know it sounds too old but my g4 400mhz is very fast because the install of 10.4.11 is very clean. Flash 9 was working great with firefox3 and Safari3, both with all updates. Then I updated to flash 10 and the problems were so obvious. Websites that used flash for plain animation would crawl, and any video would skip.

User report G4 issue

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Home >> Mac >> Adobe Flash 10 Slow on PowerPc (PPC) I have a Power Mac G5 and iMac G5 and noticed both were running slow after updating my Flash Player to version 10. The fix? Roll back to version 9. It seems most sites still support version 9. This tutorial will show you how to uninstall Flash 10 and install Flash 9. http://makesomecode.com/2009/11/24/adobe-flash-10-slow-on-ppc/

Tutorial

The Power Mac G5 was Apple 's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh that contained the IBM PowerPC G5 CPU . The professional-grade computer was the most powerful in Apple's lineup when it was introduced, widely hailed as the first 64-bit PC, and was touted by Apple as the fastest personal computer ever built. It was officially launched as part of Steve Jobs ' keynote presentation in June 2003 at the Worldwide Developers Conference , and saw three revisions to the line before being retired in August 2006 to make way for its Intel replacement, the Mac Pro .

Power Mac G5

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro The Mac Pro is an Intel Xeon -based workstation computer manufactured by Apple Inc. The Mac Pro, in most configurations, is the fastest computer that Apple offers, and is one of three desktop computers in the current Macintosh lineup, the other two being the iMac and Mac Mini . The machine is also the basis for the Mac Pro Server, which bundles the Mac Pro hardware with Mac OS X Server as a replacement for the Xserve line of servers. [ 3 ] Outwardly, the Mac Pro resembles the last version of the Power Mac G5 , and has similar expansion capabilities.

Mac Pro

The Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia , executing Rich Internet Applications , and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform. Flash Player can run from a web browser (as a browser plug-in ) or on supported mobile devices, but there also exist versions running directly on an operating system intended both for regular users and content developers, denoted with the Projector (or Standalone ) and Debugger name suffixes, respectively. [ 2 ] Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition. Flash Player supports vector and raster graphics , 3D graphics , an embedded scripting language called ActionScript executed in ActionScript Virtual Machine , and streaming of video and audio.

Flash versions

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Flash 10.1 will drop PowerPC support

PowerPC hardware Adobe has published a new version of Flash Player , updating the software to v10.0.42.34. The software fixes several security vulnerabilities, including ones related to data injection and integer overflow. Others are connected to crashes, memory corruption and JPEG image parsing. Within the Windows edition, another flaw has been fixed in the Flash ActiveX control for Internet Explorer. http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/12/10/powerpc.hardware/

Flash 9 download

To view/add comments, you must enable JavaScript in your browser. As of February 8 2011, Adobe no longer supports or provides security updates for Flash Player 9. Adobe recommends that all Flash Player users on supported systems upgrade to the most recent version. You can get the most recent version of Flash Player from the Flash Player Download Center . If your computer does not meet the system requirements for installing the latest version of Flash Player, you can continue to use Flash Player 9. However, there are potential security risks in doing so. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406791.html
To view/add comments, you must enable JavaScript in your browser. These instructions are for Windows (including Flash Player prerelease version 10.2). If you use a Mac, see Uninstall Flash Player | Mac . Flash Player information If Flash Player is installed on your computer, the following box displays the version of Flash Player and your operating system. If Flash Player is not installed, an error message is displayed.

Uninstall flash

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