“Adobe has now issued a correction retracting [a statement in a tech note outlining issues with Adobe products running on OS X Lion by claiming that Lion may have dropped support for hardware acceleration of Flash Player content] and noting that OS X Lion does in fact offer the same level of hardware acceleration as found in Mac OS X Snow Leopard,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” described in a tech note suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. – Adobe
Slivka reports, “Adobe notes that it continues to ‘work closely’ with Apple on bringing a high quality Flash experience to Mac users.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Lazy Adobe with their archaic, bloated, battery-sapping Flash. We’d love to hear their definition of “working closely with Apple.” Getting hung up on by Steve Jobs?