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Acceleration not broken in Flash for Lion, says Adobe

updated 11:30 am EDT, Fri July 22, 2011

Claims previous note was 'incorrect'


Flash hardware acceleration is not broken under OS X Lion, Adobe now says. The company recently issued a list of known issues for Lion, indicating problems not only with Flash GPU support but software like Illustrator, Lightroom and Photoshop. The statement about hardware acceleration was wrong, Adobe admits.

"The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)," writes Adobe's Rob Christensen in an official blog post. "The previous 'Known Issue' described in a tech note suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers."

GPU support may be essential for some Flash users, since it can alleviate some of the burden Flash otherwise places on computers. Macs in particular have long had trouble with the plugin, leading even Apple CEO Steve Jobs to adopt a public stance against it. Flash remains completely unsupported on iOS devices.


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  1. stevesnj

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    07/22, 11:54am | report spam | Reply |

    Wake up Adobe

    Flash is a GPU hog and on all platform Mac and PC it is always an issue and the #1 cause of browser crashing. Why can't Adobe make a stable product after all these years? Time to go HTML 5, stop this nonsense!!

  1. odowd80

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    07/22, 12:06pm | report spam | Reply |

    Adobe = Lazy

    Adobe has gotten too big and too lazy to adapt to the times. These issues should have been identified and addressed 6 months ago during beta testing. They actually said that they weren't sure if they'd incorporate any of Lion's features into their software because...get this...it would require them to write code. HOLY F*CK! We can't possibly be bothered to do that! Jeez, you customers, always wanting up-to-date products! Why people still use Photoshop is beyond me. Its the single worst image editing program available today, plus its outrageously expensive. Get your s*** together, Adobe, or you're going to be left in the dust by responsive and innovative technology companies that can deliver quality products at a good value.

  1. slapppy

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    07/22, 12:13pm | report spam | Reply |

    Stupid Adobe

    Adobe is so full of it. lol

  1. George3

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    07/22, 12:18pm | report spam | Reply |

    lame

    Adobe was probably just trying to work this into a way of charging for ANOTHER upgrade.

  1. demani

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    07/22, 12:46pm | report spam | (1 reply) Reply |

    OK-people are dumb

    WTH- they just said Flash didn't have a problem. Were they supposed to change things to break it?

    As for the other applications: Photoshop is the worst? What are you smoking? There isn't anything even comparable to it for breadth of features. NOTHING.

    And BTW- most pros DO NOT WANT auto-save. Check out the list of complaints about that on the FCP X boards when APPLE DID IT. All features do not belong in all software.

    Jeez- bunch of whiney pissed off kids who don't actually do anything with the things they are commenting on.

  1. Herod

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    07/22, 12:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    Its always someone else's fault

    right Adobe?

  1. SCslugger

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    07/22, 02:07pm | report spam | (1 reply) Reply |

    Illustrator Juggernaut

    Give me an application to replace Illustrator, and I can close the door on Adobe. How silly are all of the Adobe support apps in Launchpad? Flash has no less than 6 applications (all in a folder titled "Useless").

  1. testudo

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    07/22, 02:21pm | report spam | (2 replies) Reply |

    Re: Adobe = Lazy

    Adobe has gotten too big and too lazy to adapt to the times. These issues should have been identified and addressed 6 months ago during beta testing.

    Except beta testing didn't start 6 months ago. And you're assuming the distributions that Apple did release didn't work. Because we know Apple will work the OS, add features, etc, through the whole beta process (and sometimes not release parts at all, just to keep them until final release).

    But, hey, why ignore stuff like that when we can just blame Adobe for all that's wrong with the mac.

  1. facebook_Colin

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    07/22, 04:22pm | report spam | Reply |

    Got any alternatives?

    Adobe isn't pulling their heads out of their [expletive deleted]es anytime soon. Unfortunately, I tried to love The GIMP and failed, and so far, haven't found any good alternatives to Photoshop.

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