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Oct 30, 09 - 02:06 pm Comment from: nanisani

I watched the video, and I think it's clearly the drummer's fault. The guy can't stay in tempo.

Oct 30, 09 - 02:07 pm Comment from: John Crawford

I prevent Flash in Safari with Click to Flash.

What? Adobe can't get Flash to work properly on Macs? There's a shocker…

I use Click2Flash to watch YouTube videos. My laptop runs a lot cooler as a result.

Oops, to clarify – I use Click2Flash to watch the H.264 versions of YouTube videos via QuickTime, thus bypassing Flash entirely. That's what keeps the CPU from doing its usual spike whenever Flash runs.

Oct 30, 09 - 02:19 pm Comment from: HughB

Just select Safari in Applications folder, then select get info, select Open in 32 bit and you are good to go with flash.

Oct 30, 09 - 02:22 pm Comment from: Islandgirl

I think the last update to Flash introduced some sort of bug. I have 10.4.11 on an early 2007 iMac and I frequently get an error message saying I "need to adjust my global storage" on the Adobe Flash site.

Get a PC. The problems are fixed and it works better this time. Trust me...

Oct 30, 09 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Ytseman3

I had to downgrade to flash 9 on my 2003 powermac g5, flash 10 was locking my browsers.

Interesting how Windows 7 works perfectly!!

Could Snow Leopard have a problem not the perfect Snow Leopard that deletes users accounts and data!!

Ditch your Mac's go back to Windows!!!!

Oct 30, 09 - 02:38 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

Ken,

You must have a hard on for Macs the way you hang around Mac forums.

Ken, I suggest you go back to Ghetto Barbie…

Adobe support indicates that both Shockwave and Adobe PDF plugins are 32-bit, whereas Safari is running 64-bit. I've been wrestling with bad memory leaks since upgrading to Snow Leopard. Earlier this week I found that the Shockwave plug-in had consumed over 1 GB each of real and virtual memory and was pegging CPU utilization at some 170% (yes, that's what Activity Monitor was telling me). Even killing Safari and logging out didn't give me the expected free memory (per iStat). Had to reboot.

Right now I'm running Safari in 32-bit. I'll see if it helps.

I'm with John and Gabriel, I installed Click2Flash on my Mac last week. It's the only third party plug-in I have installed on Safari. I could not be happier with it (Disclaimer: I don't work with them, I'm just a user).

I implore all Mac users who don't like flash to support Click2Flash and install it.

Clean web pages with the ability to play Flash when you want on Safari, just like the Camino browser, but also the ability to substitute Flash with H264 on Youtube when available.

Now my processor doesn't heat up like a hot plate when I use Safari.

Rid the Mac platform of the resource hogging Flash.

Is there any platform on which Flash isn't a burden? That's a rhetorical question, obviously.

Oct 30, 09 - 02:48 pm Comment from: Jubei

Because FLASH = CRAP! Use Click2Flash and enjoy browsing again.

Oct 30, 09 - 03:01 pm Comment from: Snow Leopard

Another Click2Flash fan here. I've only installed it on the old iMac in my kitchen nook (e.g. breakfast and occasional dinner table that I use to catch up on the morning's news) and I love it. I'll be installing it on the new iMac in my office very soon.

No wonder Apple won't let Adobe's beleaguered Flash on the iPhone. It's not snappy.

Oct 30, 09 - 03:11 pm Comment from: UltraVisitor

Maybe adobe will finally fix the flash plugin for mac, after all these years.

Who cares. Flash is a pile of crap.

i think this is an invented issue. it started on engadget yesterday, and they posed the question that this was happening, but didn't happen to them. I'm sure there are a small number of users that are having this issue, but nothing that can't be solved by installing click2flash or the newest version of flash from adobe.

i have four new 27" iMacs at work and have not experienced this at all. they are all 3.33 dual core with 4850 graphics, we don't have anything with 4670 so i don't know if that is the configuration experiencing the issue. it's probably adobe/driver/codec problem with that card, as we haven't seen anything on the 4850. but then again, totally blown out of proportion and i wouldn't be surprised if engadget was put up to it from one of their sponsors.

Oh, c'mon Ken! If you can't do better than that, don't even waste our time.

Study under ZuneTang® for a little bit.

Oct 30, 09 - 03:24 pm Comment from: almux

Flash is only one of the suggested possibilities... No proof yet.
It can also be a matter to be fixed in a next Apple fix.

Flash has gotten alot more flakey over time (like Adobe in general). For having made their first billions on the mac platform Adobe sure treats it like a unwanted stepchild these days. At one time their software couldn't be beat. Not anymore.

Another satisfied Click2Flash user. And for the Firefox fans there's Flashblock.

Oct 30, 09 - 03:52 pm Comment from: jjjj

Here's to Click2Flash for Safari! You realize how many sites use Flash, and often badly at that. The h264 option on many youtube videos is very nice.

Adobe is getting smug and maybe had their feelings hurt. Dear Adobe, it's not so much that Flash is coded badly, it's how your customers use it. They design bloated websites, and awful "rich media" advertising. Even Apple is to blame, on occasion. Once, just to show a 300x250 ad, Apple (and their digitial agency) pushed a 1MB file to the consumer to show an advert.

Click2Flash +1

Flash has always caused performance issues on Mac OS X.
I fail to see why this is news.

@Another IT Guy...

Yea, iPhone!

Oct 30, 09 - 04:32 pm Comment from: NikonFox

People still use flash? Why do we continually allow crap to be used?? Flash madness needs to be stopped

Oct 30, 09 - 04:41 pm Comment from: breeze

Use ClickToFlash to shut out Flash

Oct 30, 09 - 04:50 pm Comment from: aka Christian

Hey, mostly bull-

How are your people liking the 27" iMacs? Any differences in speed that you've noticed?

Just wonderin'... and daydreamin'.

Oct 30, 09 - 05:00 pm Comment from: macslut

Every single one of us using ClickToFlash could post a response here, and it still wouldn't be enough to represent how friggin awesome it actually is.

@ aka Christian:

They are loving them so far. The new displays on the 27" are amazing, truly the best that has ever been in an apple product, and that includes the 30" cinema.

As far as speed goes, the 3.33 doesn't crunch numbers much faster than the 3.06 from the previous generation, but the extra RAM is surely welcome. With 8-16GB in each machine it really helps with multitasking and productivity (like OS virtualization).

We can't wait for our quad cores to come in next month, then we will be really able to see performance gains and replace some older mac pro's. It's a great machine, I think the best iMac ever. You will not be dissapointed.

Sounds like a feature to me. I use Click to Flash to avoid Flash whenever possible.

Itʻs way past time to flush Flash.

Oct 30, 09 - 06:13 pm Comment from: MacRaven

@ PC Guy

Yeah, but do we trade 50 PC annoying problems for one Mac Flash problem that will soon be solved with an updat? I think not.

I was one of the high end graphics card purchasers in the June 24" iMac that experienced a bug. It was fixed in a reasonably fast time with an update. No biggie.

I was using Windows 7, and flash doesn't even work AT ALL in Internet Explorer 64-bit. So take that into consideration.

The sad thing is my MacBook had the same problem with the flash video too in the same places. When I was watching the embedded video - the drummer seemed to stutter on my computer too.

Hope Apple has a fix for all Mac computers that try to play back the video.



Peace.

I haven't tried watching the video yet on my wife's new Mac Mini which arrived today! It's her computer but we're both excited.

It discourages Flash? I’m sold

As if I needed one more reason!

Actually folks I spent multiple years like you loving my mac but also appreciating my roots from windows. Unlike you I woke asking myself why am I overpaying for something that is no better than windows so I went back to my first love and will stay there forever. I still have my mac but only for movie editing and photo collection. When I want to do real work I go to windows!!

All I know is I upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard and had stuttering video issues like those described above. I reverted back to Leopard and video is good again. Tells me hardware is fine, software (either snow leopard or Flash) is jacked up.

What was Apple thinking?
I went to the store to see the new 27 inch iMac. I could not believe how crappy the keyboard and mouse are. The keyboard looks so out of proportion compared to the computer and seems
light and flimsy and cheap. The mouse felt too small for my hands and I have SMALL hands. I can't believe they put this out. I'm shocked and how cheap the keyboard looks. Looks like it cost about 2 dollars to make.

Nov 02, 09 - 04:12 am Comment from: twilightmoon

Anthony007,

I actually purchased the same keyboard that comes with the 27" iMacs if its the one with the aluminum base and flat whitish grey keys. It types very well and I love it, although mine has some slight issues after having spilled soda on it (not recommended for any type of keyboard).

I haven't tried the new mouse but have read a number of positive reviews of it. I'll have to try one myself to decide, I currently use a Razor Lachesis mouse. Don't like any Apple mouse going back to before the puck mouse.

Ken, PC Guy and other trolls, feel free to keep coming here and spewing nonsense. I'm sure you will convert many Mac fans to Windows. I can see Microsoft's 90% marketshare going up by 100th of a point right now!