Comment 173 for bug 727064

(In reply to comment #127)

> I just want to comment that it is *ridiculous* that this issue has been closed
> as "NOTABUG" - it quite manifestly *is* a bug.

In Adobe's software.

> I'm no great fan of flash but it's an essential part of life on the web these
> days and I had thought that the Fedora project had finally put its days of
> broken flash support behind it.

Fedora's flash support is fine. Adobe's software is broken.

> The average punter, looking to evaluate Fedora will *not* care one jot *why*
> sound is broken in flash audio/video - they will just think "Fedora is crap"
> and move on to something else that isn't broken.

That's fine. Fedora Project's main priority is to improve its own software, not necessarily to maximize the number of users (unlike proprietary software, where maximizing the number of paid users is an end in itself). In particular, developers shouldn't waste time creating workarounds for third-party software and as a result causing developers of said software to be even less responsive than they already are, creating the need for more workarounds, ad infinitum.

> Please, re-open this issue and get a fix implemented for it ASAP.

Anything done in Fedora is a workaround, not a fix. Only Adobe can fix its own software.

In any case, it looks like Adobe may have "fixed" the problem in their usual responsive fashion. The latest update at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html shows only 32-bit versions. If they have in fact abandoned 64-bit Flash yet again, it means that users have no choice but to use the 32-bit wrapped plugin which is not affected by this bug (in their software).