“Mac OS X 10.6.4, released on Tuesday, includes Flash Player 10.0.45.2,” MacNN reports. “The problem, says Brad Arkin, is that this version of Flash was originally released for Macs in February, whereas v10.1 has been available since last week and fixes major security vulnerabilities, in addition to bringing feature improvements.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Mac OS X 10.6.4 was tested with Adobe’s Flash 10.0.45.2. Apple isn’t going to delay their release schedule just because some lazy ingrates decide to issue a half-assed update less than a week before the release of Mac OS X major point update that’s been undergoing developer testing for months. Adobe has become a group of idiotic whiners.
We have a solution to this issue: Apple should stop shipping baked-in Flash components in Mac OS X and let users decide for themselves if they want to pollute their Macs with Adobe’s processor-pinning, fan-spinning, insecure crapware.
You know, Adobe, there’s a time to just STFU, admit defeat, and get to work on the future. Unfortunately, that time came and went months ago.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Good idea MDN, Flash should be “opt in”
WHATEVER ADOBE. You can kiss my
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Can’t believe people in Adobe keep on doing senseless things like this. So sick.
If they’re going to ship Flash they should also ship Click to Flash – It would bring balance to the Force!
Adobe, poor little adobe’s running to tell the teacher on Apple again….
Eat your wheaties and take your lumps, now you know how it feels, how do you like them apples assholes?!
I don’t get the issue. I upgraded the newest version of Flash when it came out, then I upgraded my machine the other day to 10.6.4. The Apple installer is smart enough to know that I have a later version of Flash on my machine. After the OS X upgrade I still had Flash version 10.1 installed, so what’s the problem?
Web designers arrested for Flashing
Trust me…ClickToFlash is truly a blessing.
LOL!! Love MDN’s take!
Hmmm…
I do see some writing on the wall here. Safari 5 has extensions now, flash could be bumped out of default installs and marked as an “opt-in” or some such. I can’t say it would hurt my feelings if flash were marked as an extension and you had to add it, like Firefox used to (still does?).
I would not miss it, truthfully, except on sites that insist on putting it in everything, including asinine topic headers and such. Why do that, people? Go with HTML5 and tell the bozos still using IE6 to step away from the precipice.
All Adobe do is whine!
This paragraph makes the entire story worth the read 😀
“Apple should stop shipping baked-in Flash components in Mac OS X and let users decide for themselves if they want to pollute their Macs with Adobe’s processor-pinning, fan-spinning, insecure crapware
Didn’t Flash 10.1 remove hardware acceleration from Flash? If I’m remembering correctly, of course Apple would prefer the version of Flash that contains hardware acceleration to one the did not.
Maybe Adobe should get its act together and not have stripped hardware acceleration from Flash 10.1.
@bizlaw
The hardware acceleration component of Flash 10.1 for Mac has been delayed. It was in the “Gala” preview version released a few weeks ago. The Gala accelerator reportedly only works with the most recent nVidia GPs (used by Apple in 2009 and 2010 models).
All I can say is that Safari 5 refuses to work with a online tour that I needed to take and I had to use Firefox. I’m trying to find the older version to re-install so it works right.
didn’t we go thru this the last time there was a mac os x update where adobe released a new version of flash the week before and then complained that it wasn’t in the update?
Okay, scratch your hards fanboys and fangirls – does anyone recall anyone in an official position at Apple ever whining like the Adobe children seem to do? Names, dates and reason for whining please.
“Apple has once again failed to put the latest version of Flash in a Snow Leopard update, Adobe’s security and privacy director complains.”
Maybe that’s because of the HUGE FREAKING SECURITY HOLES IN IT!!!! Maybe the “security and privacy director” needs to remember that. Duh….
I’m a photographer, I have not used adobe products almost 10 years. I’m very happy!!
MDN
Just start these articles from now on with the first two words…
Adobe complains.
What a crappy article. Whatever happened to real journalism.
Allow me to repeat this story. A few years back, Adobe management called in the leaders of the Photoshop team to plan upgrades. When asked about the optimum approach for major improvement, the P-Shop crew suggested they wad up the filthy, unintuitive hairball, throw it away, and start over again from scratch. Management said no, we’re not going to do that. So instead, we’ve gotten a few tool upgrades that are still beta-ish, and new icons, just for the sake of new, which are harder to distinguish than the originals.
There you have the difference between Adobe and Apple.
I use http://clicktoflash.com/ on my Mac / Safari. It gives me the option to view Flash as needed without it being “forced” on my browsing experience. It works well and I highly recommend it.
Flash is a rancid turd. I am fed up with Adobe now … I hate those asswipes.
‘MDN Take’ ….. Guys, you just have to stop talking like this! ….. I’m so unprepared for the laughter that follows …..
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