I just realised how long its unambiguous title is.
For instance:
You can’t just say "Player 9 Linux Beta", because nobody would know what you meant.
You can’t just say "Flash 9 Linux Beta", because Flash 9 is the authoring environment, which HASN’T been released.
You can’t just say "Flash Player 9 Beta", because the other operating systems have already had release versions.
You can’t just say "Flash Player 9 Linux", because that would suggest that it had been officially released.
Anyhow, I downloaded it from Adobe’s website and checked it out. Finally, audio and video are in sync, and I didn’t experience the sound problems that Linux users often get with Flash Player 7 (because Flash Player 7 uses an ancient sound system which must be kludgily emulated on modern distributions).
Bugs I noticed:
1. The menus on the Adobe site popped up *below* the Flash movie, so you can’t read the later items on the menu.
2. Right-clicking a movie and going to "About Flash Player 9…" doesn’t do anything unless popup-blocking is turned off in Firefox.
3. On Youtube, if the video is playing when you close its tab, Firefox hangs.
4. In some Flash movies, if Flash Player 7 is still installed, that is used instead of the 9 Beta. You must uninstall Flash Player 7.
I had installed Flash Player 7 using the script from the Adobe website, rather than from the repositories, so it wasn’t as easy as "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree". The script also installs the plugin into a different directory than the one recommended in its README file, which made it difficult for me to find exactly where the plugin files were.
Finally, I found and removed them (thanks to kFind). /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is where the "flashplayer.xpt" and "libflashplayer.so" files are; not /usr/lib/firefox/plugins. Remove those files, and put the new Flash Player 9 Beta file into the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory. Restart Firefox, and then you’ll be ready to find some bugs!
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