Have you seen any Flash video from Lion? If you have, you may have noticed the notable increase in the use of the processor in this task, and now we know why.
In a totally incomprehensible way, Apple has disabled Adobe Flash hardware acceleration for Mac OS X Lion, which means that the graphics card does not work to free the processor from the great load that the use of this technology usually entails.
I hope there is a patch from either Adobe or Apple, but this is honestly a big step backwards.
Note: Adobe has rectified and indicated that hardware acceleration is still present.
Source | 9to5Mac
This creative interpretation has to stop. It sometimes borders on biased.
Apple has not "disabled" anything. The Flash player took years to update to take advantage of the hardware and they have not yet updated it for Lion. There is no mystery, trap, or cardboard. Libraries in Lion have changed for this and a thousand other things. It is almost just a matter of recompiling and that's it (since the calls are the same, but linking to the new libraries). This was the same from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
Unless we have moved to the parallel world Adobe always takes years to update on anything other than Windows, there should be no surprise or surprise. It's how this company that people defend so much has always treated you.
Remember that Flash (like Java) are not included by Apple but by Adobe, they are third-party applications. Until they update for Lion we will be the same. They have had months to do it and they have passed. This has been the case since the first Lion beta.
Adobe has a beta of Flash Player 11 that can be downloaded by anyone who has acceleration in Lion. The shame is that Adobe has decided that for the current generation of the player it is not going to bother.
It shouldn't surprise anyone. Adobe released a Flash update for Snow Leopard that fixed bugs from when SL originally came out very recently, and did not include anything to prepare for Lion in it.
I suppose that in part Adone knows that his lack of respect towards his users will provoke reactions against Apple, not them. The example is a post like this (the one from 9 to 5 does not make the same mistake, knowing that this is not only "incomprehensible" but is already traditional in Adobe software -DE ADOBE- when there are system updates).
There are crappy open source games that have been continuously hardware accelerated for years. We are going to pretend that Adobe can't? How does Apple have it sworn? No software that is programmed correctly or that has been updated for Lion has suffered from this problem, but if Word suddenly stops working, no one thinks that it is because Apple is boycotting it.
Guys. For not putting the most neutral article waiting for more information, now it's time to put a correction:
Adobe has seen the one that the blogs were mounting for not reading well and has put an update clarifying that there is nothing in Lion that disables anything:
UPDATE: The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/905/cpsid_90508.html
Well yes, you are right Eduo. But it was not a question of waiting for more information or not, Adobe declared that Lion disabled hardware acceleration and now they have rectified, and we will do the same.
Not really. Adobe did not report that Lion disabled it but disabled it in Lion. The nuance is important because it is a Flash bug report.
9to5 reported it with the suspicion of those who do not have all the information. Adobe did NOT report it. Then the blogs have translated it half wrong and added an opinion, which is unforgivable in unconfirmed things.
There is an endemic lack of rigor. In all Spanish blogs. It is awful.
Well, I still have problems with the flash in Lion, it does not let me enter the micro or cam configuration options, to give or remove volume or to select the audio output for example, in a video chat, do you know how to solve this?