![]() Taking a cue from the problems reported on Adobe’s forum, I tested the plugin on content from NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien site, which sports a clip player using Flash 9 video. YouTube content worked fine (as one would hope, since it uses Flash 7 video codecs), as did ESPN and a random selection of other video sites. The software was a little quirkier with video. Despite what the release notes say to the contrary, I was able to install the browser plugin for Opera and it worked just as flawlessly as it did in Firefox. Likewise, all of the interactive Flash games I tried played fine, including sound. I tested a variety of Flash-driven navigation Web sites and wasn’t able to break the player. The new version played real-world Flash content without incident. On an Ubuntu 6.06 system, I made a backup copy of the existing Flash 7 plugin and tried to live exclusively with the Flash 9 beta for a few days. The standalone player will run from any location. ![]() To install the browser plugin, copy it to either your personal plugins folder (on Firefox and Mozilla Seamonkey this should be ~/.mozilla/plugins) or the system-wide plugins folder (typically /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins). This time around, Adobe has supplied not only a Netscape Plugin-compatible browser plugin, but a standalone GTK player as well.īoth packages are simple gzipped tarballs containing the binary and a readme.txt file. The downloads are ELF binaries for 32-bit x86 Linux exclusively, and require ALSA for audio. The beta is available for download - without registration - from Adobe Labs. Was it worth the wait? And should you install it now, or hold off a little longer for the official, stable product instead? ![]() But now Adobe has finally unveiled a beta release of Flash Player 9 for Linux. The stable Flash Player plugin for Linux is crusty old version 7 - trailing more than two calendar years, two major revisions, and one corporate buyout behind the Windows and Mac offerings.
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