Hello,
I cannot install flash version 10.1.0 onto a mac 10.4.11 and therefore cannot use YouTube or the BBCIplayer. Is there a compatability problem?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), cannot install flash version 10.1.0
Consider purchasing Snow Leopard for your Mac, if it's an Intel Mac, or Leopard if not.
Since you have an iMac, please don't post iMac problems in the Mac Pro forum.
Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
I have a Mac computer but Iam not a tecky so do not know if it is is an iMac or Mac pro, it doesn't tell you in the title. I do not see whay i should have to purchase new software, I paid enough for the computer in the first place.
Regards,
Alan
I am in the same boat. I cannot watch flash videos on the BBC website or on BBC iPlayer, although all other flash videos (YouTube for example) are fine.
For reasons that passeth all understanding, they work with the PPC version of Firefox, called TenFourFoxG5.app, once you have anabled plug-ins, as it does not natively support Flash.
You can download TenFourFoxG5 from here:
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
Now for the intersting bit: TenFourFox, like Firefox, does not support most plug-ins. Unless you are prone to headaches (in which case don't) you can read about that here:
http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
But there is a workaround!
Open TenFourFox and type in the address bar: about:config (no spaces) and click return. This gives you a warning that it might harm the application. Ignore that and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise' and you get the config file that you can edit - with great care.
Look/search (scroll down) for: tenfourfox.plugins.enabled
Set it to true. (Double click it to toggle it)
Now close TenFourFox, open it again, and Flash will now work, as it now uses the plug-ins that Safari has stored.
I am using Flash 10.1.102.64 in TenFourFox and it works just fine.
It seems you have to buy a new computer every few months 😮 just to keep up with the updates 😟 This is okay if you have a good income I suppose...but if like me you havn't then this is not an option. Point me to a computer Co who will stand by their computer technology for at least 10 years with free updates please 🙂
Windows xp machines released in 2001 are still chugging along no problem.
They can use the latest version of Flash Player too.
The issue here is Apple felt that it's in-house processors were better than intel and fought against the change for years. Untill finally they admitted intel is better and created a new line of pc's with it.
Kinda like the whole "get an hd-dvd player" while blocked from blu-ray because steve jobs said blueray was "nothing but a bag of hurt", only to find out a few years later he was yet wrong again, and now we have useless hd dvd players and need to update to the finally allowed blueray format.
Business insider reported on these types of issues as well as many others...
I think Apple ‑‑ you're right, you can download iOS 5 for iPhone 3G, and it won't be usable, but it's possible to install .... It's a great hardware sales tool as far as I can tell. Install this OS which makes your hardware unusably slow, so then you feel compelled to go back to the store and buy a new piece of hardware.Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-apple-makes-old-iphones-unusably-slow-o n-purpose-2012-3?nr_email_referer=1#ixzz1qWinq5Uu
duderRama wrote:
Windows xp machines released in 2001 are still chugging along no problem.
They can use the latest version of Flash Player too.
The issue here is Apple felt that it's in-house processors were better than intel and fought against the change for years. Untill finally they admitted intel is better and created a new line of pc's with it, and dropped all support for the previous one.
Kinda like the whole "get an hd-dvd player" while blocked from blu-ray because steve jobs said blueray was "nothing but a bag of hurt", only to find out a few years later he was yet wrong again, and now we have useless hd dvd players and need to update to the finally allowed blueray format.
Same thing with iPads and Flash.
If you are refering to powerpc, those were never "in house" cpus. Both motorola and IBM manufactured powerpc processors and IBM sold them in some of their high end server configurations. Beleive what you will, but there was a time when powerpc cpu's blew the doors off anything from Intel, especially for numeric processing, and very large scale analytical applications. Yes, they got eclipsed eventually by Intel, but from 1999-2005, I'd take (and did so) a powerpc G4 or G5 over anything Intel offered at that time.
Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster was once one of the fastest computers in the world (ranked #3 in 2003).
cannot install flash version 10.1.0 onto a mac 10.4.11
