On Mar 28, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
Flash for Linux literally sucks... it is slow
As someone that has spent a good deal of time benchmarking Flash performance, this is not true. On the exact same hardware, the Linux Flash Player 7 plug-in plays as fast as the version 7 plug-in on Windows.
However, the Flash Player ActiveX control is more highly optimized than the plug-in, so if you compare Flash performance on Windows in IE to Flash performance on Linux with Firefox, Windows is faster in that case. If you use Firefox as the browser on both platforms, the performance is as close as my measurements could show. Since the current Flash Player for Windows is version 8, that throws another issue into the mix. My tests show version 8 to be up to 15% faster than version 7 using the same configuration. If you compare Flash performance using a Windows version 8 ActiveX control to a Linux version 7 plug-in, you are indeed comparing apples and oranges.
and again there is no support for shockwave. People says that's due to the needs of using ActiveX for ShockWave run
Shockwave is available as both an ActiveX control and a plug-in on Windows. Unlike Flash, both versions have the same performance ( a plug-in is available for Macintosh too). The Shockwave group within Adobe is completely separate from the Flash development group. The usage base and defined goals of the Shockwave group must indicate little need for a Linux player. I of course disagree with that, but I'm not the Shockwave development manager ;)
For those hoping for a 64-bit Flash Player for Linux, the indications for the upcoming Flash Player 8.5 show no support planned for x86_64 on Windows, so I doubt it will appear on Linux.
Flash users on Linux should be aware that there is no plan for a version 8 Linux Player. The Flash group is working instead on a version 8.5 Player. This effects Linux users because Adobe recommends upgrading to the most recent version 8 ( 8.0.24 ) to resolve several security issues. With the most recent issue ( CVE-2006-0024 ), Adobe is releasing fixes back-ported to version 7 players for depreciated platforms ( Win 95, Win NT, Mac OS < X ). Not included is Linux, which is not a depreciated platform ( which is good ). That means the Linux Flash Player version 7 has the above vulnerability, and a fix will not be available until Player 8.5 is available for Linux.
I know many of you won't touch Flash with a ten meter pole, but for those who do, be careful out there.
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