Terrible flash support!

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28. March 2012, 09:26:35

Posts: 10

Terrible flash support!

Hello! I really love Opera and I'd like to make it my default browser, but there seems to be a very annoying bug/issue that messes all the excitement. The flash support is pretty much terrible. Seems like opera can't handle multiple flash instances. When I open two flash sites at once, the players crashes in both after a while. That's really really disappointing issue.sad Please fix it! Because opera is really outstanding and stands far ahead its opponents!

OS - PinguyOS 11.04 64bit, Opera 11.61.1250

28. March 2012, 19:22:15

calande

An Opera Veteran

Posts: 1323

Same problem here with Ubuntu and Opera Next

(But no problem with other browsers)

Charles.

18. April 2012, 02:31:24

xgdgsc

Posts: 11

Flash in opera certainly crash more frequently than other browsers.

18. April 2012, 06:50:20

rgnr

Posts: 10

Meanwhile, Mozilla all the way..

18. April 2012, 14:24:36

schemestrom

Posts: 251

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I think that these problems are all well known. I do also think they won't ever get fixed, as Flash is going to die anyway* and HTML5 support is getting better (in browsers and websites). But seriously, who needs Flash? Okay, I have it enabled, but only because I don't want to accept Google/Youtube cookies (which are necessary for HTML5 support on YT).

*) 1. No new Adobe Flash versions for Linux (only security fixes).
2. IE 10 on Metro won't support Plugins.
3. No Flash for mobile platforms (I believe having read that there will also be no new Adobe Flash versions for Android).
4. Flash sucks.

18. April 2012, 23:27:25

rgnr

Posts: 10

Well, http://www.thinkoomph.com/thinking/2010-02/html-5-flash-future/ Meanwhile, Flash is here and not going anywhere

19. April 2012, 16:40:35

schemestrom

Posts: 251

If you asked me in 2010, I would probably have told you the same. All the information from my previous post is newer than the last six months (except for "Flash sucks").

20. April 2012, 18:28:35

Frenzie

Posts: 14476

Originally posted by schemestrom:

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I think that these problems are all well known. I do also think they won't ever get fixed, as Flash is going to die anyway* and HTML5 support is getting better (in browsers and websites). But seriously, who needs Flash? Okay, I have it enabled, but only because I don't want to accept Google/Youtube cookies (which are necessary for HTML5 support on YT).

I do.

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22. April 2012, 13:42:28

schemestrom

Posts: 251

There are already some well done HTML5 games. These will of course not work for the people who never ever upgrade their browsers, but if I should do such a game, I wouldn't care for them. HTML5 also already addresses more platforms (i.e. mobile devices), which will be more important in the future.

22. April 2012, 19:45:22

Frenzie

Posts: 14476

I'm just saying, Flash for video can't die soon enough as far as I'm concerned, but it has a place of sorts (if mostly for legacy content). I much prefer to play (Flash) games and video outside the browser, or a widget would work too I suppose. The adventure games in the current HumbleBundle are absolutely worth getting btw, and that movie Kooky was cute.

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22. April 2012, 20:15:14

rgnr

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I'm sure many of us wanna see flash go down, but the facts are that it is not going to leave anytime soon, and because of that Opera looses to Mozilla.

22. April 2012, 21:29:45

Frenzie

Posts: 14476

Originally posted by rgnr:

I'm sure many of us wanna see flash go down, but the facts are that it is not going to leave anytime soon, and because of that Opera looses to Mozilla.

What are you talking about? Flash works no better or worse than in Firefox for me. Since Flash 10 the plugin isn't even half bad.

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23. April 2012, 02:45:00

rgnr

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For me it works perfectly (as far as possible)in FF

23. April 2012, 21:04:56

Frenzie

Posts: 14476

Works fine for me in both.

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5. May 2012, 10:39:57

tomica

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Unfortunately, Flash in Opera on Linux is nowhere near stable. And it's performing much worse than in other browsers. For example, try playing a flash video and zooming in - it will crash. Try writing any non-ascii text in a flash form - it won't work at all. Not to mention the enormous amount of resources consumed only for displaying flash content in Opera

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12. May 2012, 11:06:41

flansuse

Posts: 182

Originally posted by tomica:

Unfortunately, Flash in Opera on Linux is nowhere near stable.

Others have noticed, including myself: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=12263672

5. July 2012, 22:48:15

rgnr

Posts: 10

Yay! Opera 12! Flash doesn't crash anymore! Now it's an ultimate browser! Yay! Go Opera, GOOOOO!

16. July 2012, 23:19:07

cecilia

Been to the Moon

Posts: 312

I've changed to html5 on youtube and it works better in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

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17. July 2012, 02:11:55

rgnr

Posts: 10

Of course, it is! Can't wait html5 to replace the damned laggy-buggy flash

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