Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken?

Courtesy Slashdot: Linux  Sun, 08/17/2008 - 12:37

mwilliamson writes "As I sit reading my morning paper online I still cannot view the embedded videos due to auto-detection of my Flash player not working.

One in every three or four YouTube videos crashes the browser. I remember sometime back reading that Adobe has a very small development team (possibly only one) working on the Linux port of Flash.

It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as...


 

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