Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

[Yorvyk]

On 17/06/13 15:42, Leszek Lesner wrote:
> Am 17.06.2013 16:37, schrieb John Hupp:
>> On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
>>> According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements for
>>> running Flash with Linux are:-
>>>
>>>
>>> 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or
>>> faster processor for netbooks
>>>
>>> Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32 bit and 64 bit),
>>> openSUSE® 11.3 or later (32 bit and 64 bit), or Ubuntu 10.04 or later
>>> (32 bit and 64 bit)
>>>
>>> Mozilla Firefox 17 or Google Chrome
>>> 5
>>> 12MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
>>>
>>> The hardware requirement, from my experience, appears to be
>>> remarkably accurate and maybe something we need to highlight.
>>>
> One requirement missing is SSE2 support from the CPU. Without it the
> plugin won't run. (In Chromium it even disables it completely). This
> might be a problem for Athlons XPs that can run faster then 2.33 Ghz but
> don't have SSE2. And yes I saw a bunch of them with exactly this problem
> occuring which forced the users to use an outdated flash player version
> (10.x) because gnash is still not working very well for video outside
> the youtube context (which btw. works like a charm with vlc or
> youtube-dl for that matter)
>
Forgot about that.
No mention of the SSE2 requirment here [1] - naughty Adobe.

I like the fact they can't reproduce the fault in this [2] bug report.




[1] http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html
[2] https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3154276

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Steve