Regardless, I have Flash player 10r12 running on the exact same system configuration and it's working reasonably well. One thing I would suggest, however, is using the 32 bit build of Firefox. It's not perfect, but I run for about a week between crashes with this configuration, and I have a hulu or Flash-based radio window running almost all the time lately...where, before on the 64 bit build, I had a lot of stability problems (with the plugin wrapper thing that allows 64 bit Firefox to use 32 bit plugins--not only did it crash a lot, but Flash felt disjointed from the browser in weird ways and a lot of stuff didn't work).
My thoughts exactly... I can't wait for <VIDEO> tag supported by YouTube/Hulu. Once those two can be accessible without Flash, I'm done with this garbage: the front page of ESPN.com does nothing special, in fact it's devoid of any functionality, yet it consumes 35MB of RAM and eats 20% of 2.4Gz CPU at idle. Fucking insane.
Die, flash, die. And take all these morons who built businesses on top of this junk with you.
More like "Flash 10 on FC9 is broken." Fedora 9 was a less than stellar release, from what I've read. Though I tested it for a week or so and didn't have any problems on my install. My advice when this happens: go back to a previous versioning which does work. Fedora, especially, likes to release early and often. Not always a bad thing, but sometimes frustrating.
Flash from Adobe will never be in the official Fedora repository. It isn't Open Source, and Fedora is a pure FOSS distro. Flash 9 on Fedora 9 also has to come from Adobe. And there are Flash 10 binaries from Adobe for Fedora....I'm running 10r12, as I mentioned.
Regardless, I have Flash player 10r12 running on the exact same system configuration and it's working reasonably well. One thing I would suggest, however, is using the 32 bit build of Firefox. It's not perfect, but I run for about a week between crashes with this configuration, and I have a hulu or Flash-based radio window running almost all the time lately...where, before on the 64 bit build, I had a lot of stability problems (with the plugin wrapper thing that allows 64 bit Firefox to use 32 bit plugins--not only did it crash a lot, but Flash felt disjointed from the browser in weird ways and a lot of stuff didn't work).