Particularly if you installed the beta, but also for vastly improved performance, you’ll want to grab the final version of Flash Player 8 as soon as possible.
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September 13th, 2005 at 2:19 am
I tried the beta, but all the content @ sites like cnet.com, and the macromedia site would not show. I don’t get any type of warning or errors. Just empty areas where the flash content should be. Looks like I’ll be using 7 until I figure out whats going on
September 13th, 2005 at 2:22 am
oh thats in FireFox 1.06, BTW
September 13th, 2005 at 7:13 am
Hopefully they are going to release a 64-bit version for Linux too. Because I’m still doing without Flash on a 64-bit Firefox, and I don’t like the precompiled 32-bit ones.
September 16th, 2005 at 2:47 am
aha, I figured it out, and I just to let ya know, it was the FireFox extentsion, Adblock, causing the problem. You have to disable obj-tab option under adblocks extension preferences.
heres a link to a the posts @ mozillazine that helped me fix it
hope that helps someone!
September 24th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
Where’s the link?
September 25th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
Fixed MystaMax’s comment so the link is visible.
October 17th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
There is an online petition running here:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/lin64swf/
Sign it and send it along.
October 28th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
In my opinion, performance is still a bit slow if the Flash 8 swf uses too many filters and a lot of transparency, but it’s gotten better!
November 28th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Thx to MystaMax with the FireFox help
July 7th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
every body said player 8 these days, if it’s really good, i will try!untill now, i still use quick flash player, seems ok!
http://www.yaodownload.com/video_t/videoplayer/quickflashplayer/
December 13th, 2006 at 1:18 am
But sometimes when I opened some flash embeded sites, it asks for flash player 9????