Adobe released Flash Player 9, but it’s only for PowerPC-based Macs.
More info and download link here.
More info and download link for preview release for Intel-powered Macs is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Adobe. Not the nimblest software company on the block, but certainly one of the most indolent.
[UPDATE: 11:00am EDT: revised download link for preview release.]
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Well, as I type this on my swift new 17″ MacBook Pro, all I can say is that they released it for the vast majority of Macs.
can anyone comment on better performance on flash heavy sites?
Isn’t the “take ” redundant?
And for the correct use of ‘indolent’ in a sentence, 5 bonus points.
Hey, I got an opportunity to use Safari’s dictionary thingie.
indolent: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
For the rest of us:
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/indolent
Wow, MDN, I’m disappointed by your crack at Adobe. Adobe produces the most stable, efficient and beautiful apps out there for the Mac, and won’t rush the process because of market pressure.
Maybe MDN is just cranky today – time for a nookie?
How about using the Dictionary Widget. It’s quite handy and gives you as much information as any of the web based dictionaries.
The only Adobe app out there that really sucks is Adobe Reader. What a slow, bloated piece of crap!
no universial binary… huh? wat is adobe doing, they have know for ages that the new macs run on an intel chip. why arent they creating software for the latest computers.?
dennis,
Ah, but that’s the humor of it.
wow…. looks like MDN couldn’t accept criticism and deleted my comments….
Adobe was told over a year ago that Macs were moving to Intel.
Intel-based Macs have been shipping for over six months now.
Other much smaller, but much nimbler software companies have gone Universal.
Adobe software is made with old tools. They should’ve moved to Xcode when they were told to do so by Apple.
They didn’t, so now they and we Intel-powered Mac users and Apple (pro sales) all have to pay the price for Adobe’s indolence.
Anonymous,
Criticize to your heart’s content (God knows we do), but please keep it somewhat on-topic.
Thank you.
Here’s the link to the intel public beta of Flash player 9
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/public_beta/
For your information, I am on topic, but unfortunately your MDN Take is somewhat biased. And when I criticised, you delete them.
Is that the level of professionalism you show to your readers….?
The anti-iPod website http://www.idont.com still “dont” work for me, even with this upgrade installed. Ditto some other sites I’d like to use that are Flash based. Of course, all the Flash sites pointed to from the Adobe Flash pages work fine.
So is it me, or is it that these sites have bad Flash? Are they part ofthe Mafiasoft conspiracy in that they don’t support Macs?
Good call Alec,
Seems Adobe is just a bit behind on the intel version of Flash.
Although it was my understanding that the Xcode tools would allow for simultaneous production of intel and PPC code.
Maybe Adobe did the PPC version the old way to be on the safe side.
A fair argument for some of the big programmes taking a long time to re-write their programs is because of the number of lines that needto be rewritten and that they previuosly did not use Xcode.
Why even release a bloody powerPC version you idiots?
Adobe are so demented and behind. Do they know what a universal binary is?
Adobe I’ll spell it out for you: Release a universal binary, and Macs with powerPC and Intel chips can both run it. Do you see now? Do you understand?
I wouldn’t even call adobe pathetic these days, it would be too much of an understatement.
It pisses me off that bruce chizen (a sales guy) is running this company into the ground. they used to make good apps.
anonymous, sorry we are actually ver dumb. We were die-hard fanbois, who just cant accept criticism from readers.
In our point of view, there are only Apple and us who are always right, even better than God.
FYI, we always deleted criticism or bad comments from readers, but you’re one of the few who realised it *too bad for us
It seems like my Safari is snappier now on my PB 1.67
“For the rest of us:
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/indolent“
hahahahhahahah….thanks!
What is this, 1997?
We don’t use online dictionaries. We have Mac OS X:
Secrets to using Mac OS X Tiger’s built-in Dictionary with Safari
Disclaimer: If you’re stuck on a dinosaur Windows PC at work, I fully understand your unfortunate need to execute a last century maneuver like navigating to some online dictionary.
Downloaded the Flash update and installed it. Noticed that no Admin password was required. Should this product install without being prompted for a Admin password?
Adobe is amazing. With new Flash Player 9, Mac users can saddle their universal binary browsers down with a Rosetta-invoking plugin.