I have a great G5 iMac. It has been my main machine for years now. I recently upgraded Flash to version 10 and performance began to suck. The new, supposedly high performance version of Flash made whole sites unusable. Last night I downgraded to Flash 9 and life is good. Here’s what I did:
- Download the Flash Uninstaller from Adobe – here
- Fix Disk Permissions via the Disk Utility
- Download all whole slew of versions of Flash 9 – here. If you are just looking for the seemingly latest (as of November 2008) go here, but be warned I had problems with both the Universal and PowerPC installers.
- Fix Disk Permissions via the Disk Utility
Things seems to be working a heck of a lot better now. Guess I’ll have to wait for a rev’ed iMac before I a) give this G5 up and b) upgrade to Flash 10.