The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Adobe Flash

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by knightingmagic, Mar 5, 2008.

  1. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    1,194
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Does anyone know of an alternative to the official program?
     
    knightingmagic, Mar 5, 2008
    #1
  2. imar3l

    imar3l Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    35
    Messages:
    360
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    i hope you dont mean flash player..

    http://sothink.com/ has some good falsh animators at reasonable price..
     
    imar3l, Mar 5, 2008
    #2
  3. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    1,194
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Oops. I meant the player, not the editor.
     
    knightingmagic, Mar 5, 2008
    #3
  4. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,886
    Messages:
    6,566
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    There's silverlight by Microsoft but it's pretty new. If you want to play flash at all i recommend you keep it. Many things on the web rely on flash.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 6, 2008
    #4
  5. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    1,194
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    So there's no good alternative Flash player? Every since I had to reformat due to slow performance I've kept this system pretty clean.

    Deleted HP Trialware (Musicmatch, AOL, etc)
    Norton ---> NOD32 (Boot time improved from ~1 hour to ~1 minute)

    Disabled/deleted Apple crap (iPhone/AppleTV support, Bonjour, Apple Software Update). I wouldn't use iTunes itself if I didn't have an iPod. Quicktime ---> QT Lite 2.4 (It has the core functionality of quicktime, but without qqtask.exe and other nefarious stuff).

    Adobe (PDF) Reader ---> Sumatra PDF Reader (I want to look at that PDF I just downloaded, not update to version 8.1.2.0.613.10.1, a 20 minute download that enables more system slowing spyware).

    An alternative flash player would be great, as the official one is a resource hog, crashes Opera if you try to scrub through a Youtube video, and is known to be a security risk.

    99% of the things that rely on flash are advertisements :rolleyes:
     
    knightingmagic, Mar 6, 2008
    #5
  6. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,886
    Messages:
    6,566
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Good job cleaning the crapware, but not all things flash are adverts. Newgrounds.com is a flash game site, amongst the many, which is heavy on flash for the games.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 6, 2008
    #6
  7. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

    Reputations:
    801
    Messages:
    2,529
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I hate it when a website is entirely coded using flash, ex: MyCokeRewards.com Anything that isn't a dual-core runs like sh!t on it.

    I use SpywareBlaster. I think it disables some advertising (using flash and other various forms of HTML) from showing up.
     
    ScifiMike12, Mar 6, 2008
    #7
  8. jimc

    jimc Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    130
    Messages:
    269
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    There's gnash which is an open source flash player but to get it working with your setup you might as well install Adobe Flash Player unless you have the time and technical skills.
     
    jimc, Mar 6, 2008
    #8