Comments on: OS X Lion update kills Flash Player hardware acceleration and more

By: Surrea Lister

Surrea Lister — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:08:00 +0000

yeah, when i try to click settings when i’m opening up my webcam on a site it won’t allow me to click it. i went to system preferences but what should i do now to make it so i can be able to click “accept” in settings for my webcam?

By: Surrea Lister

Surrea Lister — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:08:00 +0000

By: unknown grindn

unknown grindn — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:01:00 +0000

is there a fix coming??! when?!

By: Disorganized

Disorganized — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:18:00 +0000

Forgot to include the references. Here are three, including one from your own site:

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-admits-os-x-lion-flash-claims-were-false-22166756/
[2] http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/index.cfm?newsid=3293104&pagtype=allchandate
[3] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218600/Adobe_recants_knock_on_Apple_s_OS_X_Lion

By: Disorganized

Disorganized — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:15:00 +0000

This article is incorrect and needs to be removed, or be given an update notice with correct information. Adobe recanted it’s claims that Lion disabled hardware acceleration for Flash [1] [2] [3]. They now admit that is in fact Adobe’s player that is having issues.

Their original claim was made due to the fact that an earlier beta only version of Lion had hardware acceleration disabled, but even then it was only for one particular hardware model. Subsequent beta versions, and in point the final release version of Lion, has the feature in place for all hardware models.

So please update this article with proper information, or remove it. Thanks.

Deanna7736: The flash player version made available by Adobe for OS X Lion is a beta version. It will function fine, however it does have a few bugs such as the Settings window being unclickable. This however can be worked around by changing the settings in the Flash Player dialog, which you can find located in the System Preferences menu in Lion.

By: Deanna7736

Deanna7736 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:08:00 +0000

does anyone know if there is a current flash player download that works in my new MacBook Air OS X Lion???

By: amn k

amn k — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Apple did temporarily turn off hardware acceleration in the earlier builds of Lion as they were trying to stabilize their 2D hardware acceleration API (Quartz GL). However, it has been enabled one again in the final build (Safari 5.1 is using Quartz GL to do hardware acceleration in the final build). Adobe simply has to do some tweaking with flash player to get its hardware acceleration working again. Not a big problem on either side.

By: Ethan Savickas

Ethan Savickas — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:15:00 +0000

This article is ridiculous. No, Apple did not kill any sort of flash hardware acceleration. Adobe was just late to the update party and their products are suffering for it.

By: Ethan Savickas

Ethan Savickas — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:15:00 +0000

This article is ridiculous. No, Apple did not kill any sort of flash hardware acceleration. Adobe was just late to the update party and their products are suffering for it.

By: Mmalakai1

Mmalakai1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:21:00 +0000

I don’t think both companies work well with each other. Microsoft has always worked well with adobe. Steve jobs never like adobe calling them lazy developers. I just think apple needs to continue using without them so they can stay within there means and be happy about it. Other so that like and use flash are happy to my knowledge. Just like a apple user to blame other software when things don’t workout together. Stay closed apple just stay close.

By: Justin Azzarito

Justin Azzarito — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:06:00 +0000

Adobe isnt really hurting itself. Not everyone is updating to Lion…. and most of their users are on PCs.

By: The DBP

The DBP — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:34:00 +0000

This article is so poorly written. Lion didn’t “mess with” anything. Adobe had access to Lion developer previews and chose not to fix things before Lion was released, that simple.

By: James

James — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:31:00 +0000

It is both apple and adobe. Yet, if apple’s option is soon much better… why not let it all work and let the user decide. If you think Apple is blameless, I’ll borrow from Microsoft…”Really?”

By: TJCacher

TJCacher — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:20:00 +0000

My 2011 MacBook Pro with Lion clearly shows both accelerated video rendering and decoding using the version of Safari shipped with Lion and the most recent version of Flash (which was still installed for 64-bit Safari even after upgrading to Lion). Just because someone you know reported it doesn’t work for them does not mean Apple intentionally messed it up to spite Adobe. Get your facts straight.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:13:00 +0000

adobe didn’t have advance copies of the new OS? seems like they should have been prepared..

By: Aude

Aude — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Maybe Adobe is still having problems patching there security flaws.

By: Aude

Aude — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Maybe Adobe is still having problems patching there security flaws.

By: Idon't Know

Idon't Know — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Adobe has had the same opportunities as every other Apple developer to test their apps in Lion. Blaming Apple for this makes zero sense. its the usual lazy Adobe attitude that has brought them to this point with Flash and many other products.

By: Idon't Know

Idon't Know — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Let me fix that for you;

Adobe trying to kill their creative pro business once and for all?

There you go.

By: Idon't Know

Idon't Know — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Let me fix that for you;

Adobe trying to kill their creative pro business once and for all?

There you go.

By: Dominic Richardson

Dominic Richardson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:31:00 +0000

Apple trying to kill their creative pro business once and for all?