Flash player is so slow on my new netbook!

Hi.  I am running Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a Samsung NB30 netbook.  Every time I play or use something that involves Adobe's flash, the performance is terrible. The BBC iPlayer desktop (which uses Adobe Air) is also really bad!!
No other programs on this netbook - except Adobe's Flash and Air - make it slow and flash player crashes about once a day in Google Chrome.
Are Adobe even aware that Flash and iPlayer Desktop (which uses Adobe Air) are so slow and unreliable on Linux??
Why is the performance this bad.  Any ideas??????

Hi, I don't have any experience with your operating system, but I can give you some general info. First you want to go to this test site to see what version of Flash Player you have Installed and whether you can see the animation.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
About BBC iPlayer, there are problems with their site and yes Windows users, with various browsers have problems also.
One thing that users are doing when they have Installed Flash Player 10.1 is turning off the hardware acceleration feature. Whey you go to that above test site, RIGHT click on the animation (Flash Player Logo) and click on Settings, then Display Settings.
Another thing  that users have found is to make sure 3rd party content is enabled in the Global Settings Panel.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.htm l
The following thread ( See Post # 10, 12 and 17) has info on the BBC iPlayer problems that other users had and what helped.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/677670?tstart=0
Hope this information is helpful.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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