How to revert to the stable version of Flash player

Well said Tim.

A programming language (HTML 5) will never replace a complete development environment for designers, animators and navigation coders.

If flash-like functions HTML 5 somehow gets a foothold, those will be some ugly websites...

That said, I'd like to see someone else try, since Adobe's not exactly kept in tune with Macromedia's original vision.

If someone like Google would make a rich media/animation/navigation creation app. then Adobe would have competition, and these wrinkles we get with new Flash releases would go away.

Yeah I got that too. Thought it was just me. Phew!

If you're tired of Java and Flash, use a browser that blocks them and be done with it. Uninstall Silverlight. Somehow you seek the benefits of these technologies without wanting to employ the technologies. Hmmm. Hey, you could uninstall your browsers.

TUAW continues its inexorable march to irrelevancy....sigh.

Next up: The TUAW MasterCard.

would it kill you people to edit your stories before posting, and to research "assumptions" before sharing them with us as fact?

"It's no secret that Flash is a blight on the Internet and should be killed with fire. "

Really?

Must have missed that one.

I think you neglect to see what flash and the concepts behind it have actually done for the web. without it and shockwave the web would nt look anything like it does today, and thats because it was the the standard that set the bar for rich media, animation and nice transitional effects. its just that more integrated technologies have come along now and can also do that work, whilst flash stayed proprietary.

Unfortunately for you, its not going to go anywhere fast, because its such a powerful creation tool that you will find it hard to get it out of the hands of design agencies who expect thier designers to be able to develop as well as design, or designers who are more designers than coders but need to be able to implement what they do quickly.

There are some amazing flash websites out there that really engage you such as

http://www.donniedarkofilm.com/
http://www.requiemforadream.com/

And a more practical example:
http://www.iancarey.com/ (auto play audio warning)

and many other up to date examples. It just needs to be used for the right application, like anything.

A completely ridiculous way to start a post

Its like saying: "It's no secret that Bloggers are a blight on the Internet and journalism and should be killed with fire. ", because there are a million reasons why Blogging is a bad thing for the Internet & journalism, but there are also a million reasons why its a good thing for the Internet & journalism.

As I clicked the "Load next 20 comments" link, I was greeted with a full page flash ad that took over the whole site. Yeah, take flash out back and shoot it, then watch your ad revenue disappear. Along with the sites that entertain you all day.

HTML 5 is not a flash killer, they won't even be able to decide on a standard video format to use with the video capabilities, there's also not going to be any standards with regards to control, playback, etc. It's just a tag to wrap video, like the tag does now. But, hey, keep up just repeating those catch phrases. Works like a charm.

As far as performance goes, any number of poorly coded HTML/JS sites can crash your browser and destroy your resources as well. It's all about how it's implemented, not the tool used to do it. Show me a full featured replacement for Sliderocket in HTML/JS. Show me a feasible Youtube/Vimeo alternative without flash. Show me compelling advertising that continues to pay for sites like tuaw to remain up without flash (this one's probably a little easier than the others, but the advertisers like the rich interaction, like it or not, and tuaw likes the advertiser's $$).

If you desire rich media on the web, HTML/JS just won't cut it.

I used the uninstaller (updated) on the Adobe website and had no trouble uninstalling it and reinstalling the current release version.

I found the uninstaller the way you should have, by consulting the forum on the Adobe website. Googling, I gather, also works.

Click to Flash, by the way, is good stuff and can resolve a lot of thru-put dissatisfaction.

The fact that some graffiti artists are very talented and are able to create art with the medium does not negate the fact that most graffiti is a blight.

Not all ads are bad.

Not all Flash is bad.

The vast majority of Flash that the average user runs into in the course of a day/week/month is most likely obnoxious ads powered by Flash, which, on the Mac, is also going to chew through their CPU because Flash is so poorly optimized on the Mac. That's why NoFlash and ClickToFlash are so popular.

There is something very annoying in 10.1 that made me go back: when you try to scroll a web page with an embedded flash object (like a movie or whatever) it won't let the cursor scroll, forcing it to stop at the edge of said object. This is a very weird behavior that I hope it does't make it to the final release.