Ok, quick rant because this has been pissing me off. Seriously, what is so difficult about releasing a decent version of Adobe Flash for Linux? Granted, it has come a long way and the fact that it works at all is at least something I guess, but come on. Fedora is coming out with it's tenth release in a few weeks, Ubuntu is on their ninth, yet it seems like Flash is perpetually half assed. At this point, the web is literally saturated with everything from Flash ads, to video and audio players, to games, yet I always find myself having to accept a buggy user experience as status quo. I will give some praise to Adobe for actually releasing RPM's and DEB's, which is more than most companies offer, but there is no way they have more than three guys working on their Linux ports.

For example, with Flash 9 I had fairly solid playback when it worked, yet it was hit or miss whether it would actually load with the page. Often I had to reload the firefox tab three times before it would start, instead of just displaying a grey box.

With Flash 10, playback has actually gotten worse! Opening up other tabs with flash media kills existing flash items, I still have the hope it loads each time, and while flash it attempting to startup Firefox just takes a shit and waits for it. What the hell people! Now I'm sure some of this has to do with Firefox and Fedora incompatibilities with Flash 10, but this is exactly why Linux is not ready to be a viable solution for the casual user's home desktop. Flash is an extremely visible feature and should be rock solid at this point. Treating it like beta software for Linux is unacceptable.

After doing a bitch of research I stumbled upon this web page which seems to have some good tips. Setting "WindowlessDisable=true" in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg has at least allowed my to open multiple flash objects at once without it crashing. Hope this helps!