Installing Flash Player for FireFox under Windows 8

Well this is a bit strange, I need to install Flash for Firefox, but Windows 8 seems to be against the idea. I go to the Adobe site, download the installer, run it, but get an error about the Metafile and then my download is actually deleted. I download the installer again, Run as Administrator, the installer starts, but it’s deleted again and I still don’t have Flash installed. If I go to IE10, Flash is playable. What the hell is going on here? I’ll just add this to the ever growing list of things I don’t like about Windows 8. But, there is a way to get around this – download the full Flash install. Instead of using the Stub Installer, I downloaded the Full Install and was able to get it to work. Go here – http://www.filehorse.com/download-flashplayer-firefox/ and click the Download button. This is the Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Non-IE) Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Non-IE). I don’t know why I […]

Is Flash Still Relevant?

I remember talking with a friend who claimed that Silverlight was going to be the demise of Adobe Flash. That was several years ago and near as I can tell Silverlight hasn’t made a dent. It’s an interesting technology that pops up from time to time but it hasn’t exactly pulled the rug out from Adobe has it? When news first broke that the iPad wouldn’t support Flash many where aghast and horrified at the prospect. How could a device be released that didn’t support Flash? This would surely lead to chaos. The web would collapse. People wouldn’t be able to function. Dogs and cats would be living together. Didn’t happen though. The 20+ million iPad users survived and nobody seemed to care it didn’t support Flash. So one company can’t make a dent in Flash territory and another gets along just fine without it. Is Adobe still relevant? For the time being yes. Flash is going to be around […]

The Beginning of the End for Flash?

Jobs has taken every opportunity to mock Flash and even flaunt the fact that the iPad won’t support it. His words have been less than kind regarding it’s security flaws and myriad of other problems. Google probably hasn’t helped much with their slow but steady conversion away from Flash in support of HTML5. They just announced a massive shift on the mobile side of YouTube so that more devices can see their videos. It’s not great when two major players start pulling away from you, but what makes it worse is that you live to up to their bad expectations. The last couple of Flash updates have caused more problems than they’ve helped. This latest one in the 10.x series broke some major functionality and rendered a slew of videos useless. It’s a bad place to put users where they stuck on whether to upgrade and not get any videos or remain where they are and expose themselves to known […]

When will Adobe get off their ass and give us 64-bit Flash?

You know we’ll never be able to have 64-bit browsers until Flash goes 64-bit, so Adobe needs to get on the ball and stop holding us all back. Everyone is finally ditching IE6, so it’s time to get Flash updated too. Although just removing Flash altogether and converting everything to HTML 5 would be fine with me too. Seems Adobe has some work to do before their relevance begins to wane just like Microsoft’s.