Adobe AIR32.0.0.125

Just dump this crap!

v19.0.0.190 patches 23 (twenty-three) security holes, all due to its incorporation of Adobe Flash. The fact that Adobe pushed this update outside of their usual 'Second-Tuesday-of-the-Month' schedule indicates that there is imminent exploitation of these security holes. Therefore: UPDATE IMMEDIATELY! - - Or simply dump both AIR and Flash.

Why no simple way to find out which version of Adobe Air is installed? Something like a small app or a prefs pane which could also let you download and install the latest version? I did track down a small Air app which tells you which version you have installed, but surely this should be something that Adobe provide? http://knomedia.com/blog/2009/12/10/adobe-air-version-checker/

I cannot think of a single reason for AIR on my Mac -- what AIR apps do any of you use regularly?

1/2 star across the board for not listing this as BETA. Don Montalvo, TX

i’ve been reading many negative comments about Adobe AIR. this application is not totally useless. every once in a while, but not often, when i’m constipated, i download and install this app. then i uncompress the dmg and install it. after about five minutes of working with Adobe AIR, i am sitting on the toilet (cross-eyed and with a slight smile on my face) experiencing a mixture of relief and pain. then i come back to my computer and uninstall it. so there’s that.

So, PPC users (and developers trusting them) have been abandoned with a insecure 1.x version in hand? I couldn't believe my eyes so checked again, it says the security issue exist on all versions before this update. It is also treated very specially with Flash so, drive by download is possible too. I am really glad that MS Silverlight failed to take off. If it could, this was supposed to be its rival. If you haven't got something you can't give up written in Air, go to Utilities inside Applications and run Adobe Air uninstaller. At least that is what I did. I was so hopeful about this framework but they did everything to prove me wrong. Of course "web page/flash/html5 video" type applications aren't going anywhere, install latest Opera and install a Widget to see it in action. Opera shows Adobe how to do it, with 3% CPU usage and 10 MB of RAM and supports everything having a CPU.

Does Adobe AIR 2.0.2 install the latest version of Flash Player?

Anyone got a working link to 1.5.3? The one listed as an alternative link on the MU page points at the newer 2.0.2 version. I'm on a PPC machine, so that's why I need it.

Works fine, I'm able to run a couple of useful apps which fill the gaps for me.

This will NOT install on my Mac Book running Snow Leopard. It would not install running Leopard either. After hours of troubleshooting, searching, reading the Adobe support solution, (none of which work) I've come to the conclusion that it is a permissions problem that they have not bothered to code for. Their ''solution'' is to make sure admin privileges are set [which they are]. All I get is a dock icon and an app menu with no interface at all, and an endless spinning beach ball. Conclusion; when they decide to get around to writing a Macintosh version I'll take another look. This version is a total waste of time.

Does Air actually work on Apple computers? It probably does, but not for me: every time I try to install an Air application, I get an error box that says Air is not installed properly. So, I uninstall every element I can find, go to Adobe and run the new installer. No luck. I've tried every version, always with the same result. Anyone know how to fix it?

For those of you too busy to do more than make snide comments about a product you haven't bothered reading even the simplest introductory article on (many readily available from Adobe's wiki), I thought I'd take a few minutes out of my own busy schedule: 1) AIR (formerly "Apollo") is to the desktop what Flash Player is to the web browser. That is, you write content for AIR, compile it, and then people can download it and run it like a regular desktop application. And, yes, this means that you now have access to desktop-side faculties, such as the filesystem. 2) One chief difference between AIR and other dev tools is that you can use a mixture of HTML, XML, Javascript, Actionscript, Flex, etc. You're not limited to the script libraries that Adobe provides, either. Jack Slocum's Ext library, for example, is used to create a really nifty looking Task tracking app. 3) Adobe's purpose is to create an application development platform that allows the huge community of web developers use of their already-existing skills for desktop development. A secondary purpose, of course, is to allow web apps to be brought to the desktop for offline-enabled apps... apps that update when you're connected, but are still usable (in a limited sense, like composing email using Mail offline) when you're not. 4) The fact that Adobe has put more effort into bringing this technology out in a beta form shows more interest in creating a grassroots community. Branding can come later; the hardest part is getting developers interested in using the tools. 5) AIR is cross-platform. There is a runtime for Mac and for Windows, and I'm certain that if the Linux community gets pushing, there will be one for them as well. 6) Not only that, but Aptana has plug-ins that allow you to develop HTML/Javascript based AIR apps, for free, at the moment. Whether that will stay that way, I haven't heard, but you can at least give it a try.

Well at least Adobe's application icons now accurately reflect the quality of its products and the aesthetic taste of its upper management.