Flash Player with multi-monitor setup

I think I won't be overstating the facts if I say that multi-monitor setups are becoming quite popular nowadays - and not only at work. I myself use a laptop most of the time, but when I'm at my home desk, I will usually connect my laptop to a desktop monitor for a bigger picture.

Unfortunatelly, on a multi-monitor setup the Adobe Flash Player doesn't behave very well when switched to full-screen, which is how you would usually watch web video content.

On my Windows installation the main problem is that while the video plays in full-screen mode on one monitor, I can't do anything on the other monitor. I would like to be able to watch, say, a Charlie Rose program, while surfing the web. Unfurtunatelly, Adobe technology renders that quite basic use case impossible: a single click on one screen causes the full-screen video to collapse back into windowed mode on the other screen.

On my Ubuntu installation it's even worse: I also can't get the full screen mode on the secondary monitor. On Windows, when the browser window is on the secondary monitor and I go full-screen, the picture is spread on the secondary monitor. On Ubuntu, when I go full-screen on secondary, the spread picture appears on the primary display, which seems like a silly omission in the Linux implementation of Flash. (And of course, just like with Windows, I can't do anything on the other screen, because, again, the full-screen video will close.)

I've also noticed another problem, but I'm not sure if it's Adobe's fault. For instance, when I'll open an MSNBC webpage with a video (say, the latest Meet The Press), and then move the browser window from one monitor to the other, and then go full-screen, the video will have a bad resolution (i.e. that from the previous monitor). So when I'm tired of sitting at the desk and in the middle of an hour-long video decide to move to the couch, I would pause the video, drag the browser from the 1920x1200 display onto the 1280x1024 display, hit "full-screen" button and lo and behold... the video is so stretched, only half of it fits onto the screen. Which forces me to reload the page, watch the commercial again, fast forward and find where I finished - all very annoying. It's no rocket science that the Flash Player should take notice of the screen resolution not only upon loading, but also upon switching to full-screen.

Dear Flash Player staff, please send me an e-mail (to axure at wp.pl) with information when will these issues be fixed. You're trying to stay competitive against HTML5 and the Apple ofensive, so it might be nice if you turned out to be more responsive to users' requests.

Best wishes to the Adobe Flash team.