Flash Player version 10.1 comes in the form of a Universal Binary for Mac and weighs in at 7.44 MB.
Flash Player version 10.1 is supported by the following browsers: Safari, Firefox, Opera.
More info and download link here.
MacRumors reports, “The release, however, does not yet include hardware-accelerated decoding on Mac OS X.”
“Apple altered its policies in late March to allow third parties such as Adobe to tap into the hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 video on machines with compatible video cards. Adobe did just that a month later, introducing its ‘Gala’ prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1 for Macs running Mac OS X 10.6.3 and using NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M video cards,” MacRumors reports. “The Gala functionality, highly anticipated by many users for its ability to free system resources and reduce loads, will be included in a future update to Flash Player 10.1.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wow, thanks for nothing, lazy Adobe ingrates!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “macnut222” for the heads up.]
Great! Now I can update my list of crappy crap not to download.
yay, a day to celebrate !!
oh wait, I got that wrong, I thought it’s a new version of click2flash.
I notice there is no mention of IE support. Late to the party, as always.
A little too little a little too later…
“The release, however, does not yet include hardware-accelerated decoding on Mac OS X.”
Well, I suppose they *are* still chasing down that extremely critical exploit that was in the news over the weekend, so they’ve got their hands full with that.
Plus all those other smartphone platforms they’re working like crazy to support properly, that’s gotta keep them tied up too. Along with the new security vulnerabilities they’ll be opening up on those platforms too.
Still, it’s funny that the one feature they whined and complained about not being available to them on Mac OS X, once they finally got it… they’re still not utilizing it.
Adobe: for when you’re not in any hurry to get anything done soon.
“… in late March…”
So they already had a few months to implement a change.
Does Adobe have part-time Developers or something?
Is this version compatible with ClickToFlash?
I tried.
the good news: click2flash still works.
the bad news, and this is definitely not made up:
I tried this pretty static german flash site (about football world championship):
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,699759,00.html#tab=2
on my iBook 1.2GHz (no comments on that please), CPU usage WENT UP
from 30% to 65% after upgrading to 10.1 from 10.0.x
all while doing nothing, of course (mouse hovering over the flapp but not moved,
no motion in the page)
the WOW starts now, I presume?
Flush flash. Flush flash. Flush flash.
@martini ClickToFlash is working fine here with the update.
I hope it doesn’t break Click2Flash.
Adobe® Flush®
Suppose Flash is still the standard after this fight has begun to bore us more than it already has?
So, what exactly, other than a security fix, does this version of Flash give me that the previous one didn’t?
Speed? Less processor usage? Anything?
I’m being serious. I’d like to know.
I think Adobe was forced to market with this one. They had to fix the serious security flaw they reported earlier in the week. I would guess that is why it seems unfinished.
@GregoriusM
I agree with you. Why should I upgrade? I don’t see any mention of security patches and I’d be very surprised if they’ve fixed the latest security issue just reported last week. So why again is thei update important?
Adobe is amazing. Instead of trying to make its product better and sing its praises, Adobe removes support for important performance features in a childish game of “I’ll take my ball home”.
Can you imagine the man hours used to remove such a feature just to spite Apple (which will just use this as more ammo as to why web developers should dump Flash for HTML5)? And they did that instead of bug fixes? Amazing waste of resources.
Apparently four year olds are in charge at Adobe.
Adobe is hurting their own customers by doing this. How dumb. I don’t think apple cares much about this as they are already pushing html5 anyway.
I had to dump ClickToFlash due to Safari constantly hanging and crashing, and getting the warning that it was probably caused by the Sparkle plug-in. I was surprised how much better Flash performs, and it doesn’t seem to bog down page loads like it use to do for me. Looks like I’ll be upgrading to this new version.
There aren’t enough bad things that I can say about the performance of this software. I’m glad it’s quickly becoming irrelevant. Flash is only good for advertisers to annoy users.
That’ll teach us!
Adobe: proof that a company can be passive-aggressive.
@Sir Gill Bates, funny you always seem to have diffrent outcome then others.
Ahha, It’s your subjective responce to be the reverse of the status quo, your perverbial ying to eveyone elses yang.
Funny click2flash has seen no slowdowns or crashs in safari in three months of all of them running it. “six Mac systems” 2 with leopard 10.5.8 and the rest with SL 10.6.3.
You have allot of bad luck, are you sure you have Macs or are they of the hackintosh type.
But then again you always have a negitive slant with all your post, much like a Drama Queen saying “look at me,look at me it never worked like thar for me”
It gets easy to predict what context of a subject you will respond to.
Get a life
ROTFLMAO
Is anyone still wondering why Apple doesn’t want iPhones and iPads to be dependent on third party technology?
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Adobe are the PDF guys, right? So, this is like PDF stuff?
Or does this involve those scripts that Safari keeps asking me if I want to terminate?
@ deadfalsh last,
When I first installed ClickToFlash sometime back it worked great and really speeded things up for me. I was on the anti-Flash bandwagon over its’ poor performance like everyone else. But over time Safari started slowing down, hanging on page changes, and crashing. This was accompanied by the “Sparkle” warning. I uninstalled CTF to see if it made a difference since it is associated with Sparkle.
Allowing Flash to load wasn’t nearly as boggy for me as it was before. I’m using a six year old G4 iBook, so who knows what’s going on here. All I know is Safari (new version) is working well for me at this moment. This could change any day.
I’m not trying to be a contrarian, or as you call it a “Drama Queen”: I’m simply stating my experience. All four of my Macs have given me exemplary service over the years, and I have never had a hardware failure.
But, that’s not to say I’ve never had any problems. Most can be traced to software issues, and this happens to all of us at one time or another, whether we admit it or not.
I don’t think you know me as well as you think you do. As for your comment “Get a life”, I imagine that could be said for most anyone who frequents MDN. Sorry if my posts upset you.
Just upgraded. Cool! The blue lego blocks have a classier hue!
Just a thought,
Today, while at the New York Times site, I kept getting a FLASH warning on my work PC. It said that a FLASH subroutine was causing slowdowns, did I want to continue to use FLASH 10.1 flash player.
I thought,,, Hey, I am not running any videos, why is flash video player causing me any problems. I do not even think I have FLASH 10,, I believe I am still on Adobe reader 9….
So, anyone know whats up??
Just a … question.
en
So Adobe releases nothing but hot air. The blowhards sends a press realeaese of an updates POS expecting Apple users to be glad for it. No thanks.
I just reinstalled windows 98 on an old machine and when I try to install adobe flash player Im told it is no longer supported. When I try to view certain things it tells me to install the flash and java to view them.
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Sounds like Adobe is playing politics with their Mac products. I doubt that with all the money Adobe has that it would be a risk in any way to have the same features available on their Mac products as they do in their Windows products from day one. This move may be a message to Apple that if they are going to support HTML 5 over Flash then Adobe will be winding down their OS X support and rely solely on Windows.
from Adobe’s release notes:
“Mac-specific improvements
Our Mac engineers, with some help from the Safari team, made significant changes to Flash Player for Macs. Here’s a partial list of the work we completed for Argo. First and foremost, Flash Player 10.1 is a full-fledged Cocoa app (though legacy Carbon support remains for some browsers that require it). We now leverage Cocoa events, use Cocoa UI for our dialogs, leverage Core Audio for sound, Core Graphics for printing support, and use Core Foundation for bundle-style text.
Mac performance was also an explicit focus for us. One improvement we made is the use of a double-buffered OpenGL context for improved full screen playback efficiency. We also investigated a number of compile-time optimizations using Xcode to improve our overall execution speed of Flash Player on Macs. Rendering performance was improved by our use of Core Animation. For Macs running OS X 10.6 or greater, we leverage the hardware acceleration in Core Animation to dramatically improve the efficiency of displaying web pages which combine both SWF and HTML content. The details and performance implications of the Core Animation work are outlined in Tinic’s blog post . The overall performance improvements of Flash Player for Mac users will result in faster video playback, more efficient CPU utilization, and greater battery life.”
Adobe didn’t forget to leave in a few security holes, e.g., sloppyness with the configuration in private mode.
That’s okay, just like Flash, the link doesn’t even work.
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As a joke, I think it would be hilarious if Apple released a rumor that they were going to buy Adobe, push Mac support and let Windows support languish, incorporate Lightroom into the next release of Aperture and kill Flash. Then sit back and watch the blogosphere set itself on fire with alarmed Windows and Adobe fans as they panic. You gotta admit, it would be entertaining as hell. Oh, well…
Just sayin’