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?