Adobe Flash Player For Mac Powerbook G4
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Adobe Flash *Fix* for PowerBook G4 / Choppy YouTube videos etc. Discussion in 'PowerPC Macs' started by ProvenGuilty, Aug 19, 2009.
There is no need to change any of the flash player settings or the power / processor settings of the mac. I have done a clean install once more and follows the same process and got the same result. The only thing I have noticed is the fans kick in quicker than normal.

Sigh.

This article talks about much of my last post, with the focus not on Google Apps but on Adobe Flash: “Adobe Flash Has Left PowerPC Macs Behind

Mar 03, 2011 Question: Q: Alternative to Adobe Flash Player for PowerPC G4 More Less Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is. I'm running a PowerBook 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4. Tried un-installing and re-installing latest adobe flash player - still not showing video. Firefox on the Mac works fine. Well, it looks like someone has hacked the Adobe Flash Player 10.3 to work on PowerPC. I actually have this hack and it does work. The only thing that doesn't work is the system preference tab 'flash player', but 10.3 does work.

The reason I’m linking to this piece is that it makes an excellent point about “obsolete” PowerPC Macs (and even Intel Macs) not being so obsolete relative to their PC counterparts, but made so by Apple’s hardware decisions. Given that I haven’t owned a PC for at least 9 years, I had nothing to compare to, but this author points out that Apple dropping support for its older hardware sends perfectly good Macs to an early grave despite having the same or even better performance for still-supported older PCs.

On the Power Mac G5 and PowerBook G4:

While these highly capable PowerPC machines meet or exceed the Windows-based minimum hardware specifications required for the latest release of Flash Player, it matters not. Progress in the world of Mac OS X tends to make Apple hardware obsolete much faster than comparable Windows computers released in the same time frame.”

“I’m simply dumbfounded that fully capable PowerPC Macs continue to lose support and functionality with so many things that similarly aged (and often far older) Intel machines still receive” – as am I! Because I did not know that older Intel machines were supported for so long. Then again, this author makes the excellent point that support is being dropped for OS 10.4 but still retained for Windows XP.

It also makes me remember my general policy of “if it’s old and getting too slow, put Linux on it” because a Linux install will usually make most of the problems of an older Windows box magically go away. Indeed, Linux on older hardware is a good thing: but where is the support for older PowerPC platforms? In comparison, it isn’t really there.

It’s really too bad to see the end of this era. First the Dreamcast (an excellent RISC console that also runs Linux), now the Mac PPC line. It’s not that Intel/AMD architecture is superior: it’s just so common that it’s simpler to drop support for anything else. Unless there is another explanation?

Adobe Flash Player For Mac Powerbook G4

I'm having trouble with flash player. I had no problem viewing flash on my Safari and IE but when I tried to upgrade to flash 9 everything went bad. First of all I couldn't download flash 9 update. When i tried it downloaded up till '4 items remaining' and it just froze there. Every time I tried it kept freezing at 4 items left to download. thinking that i had to uninstall flash player, I ran a program to uninstall my previous flash player then tried to download flash player 9 and it once again froze at '4 items remaining.' Now, however, I can't view any flash animation whatsoever.

Any suggestions?

George

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Why don't you try downloading the file manually from Adobe's website?
'>http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Adobe Flash Player For Mac 10.4.11 Powerpc G4 Download

The installer contained inside the dmg will probably fix any errors that may have been existent previously, so everything should work after this installation.

Hope this helps