Adobe posts Flash Player 10.1 for Mac

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Now more intrusive, so when it crashes (and it will), it takes down the whole OS rather than just the browser.

The above refers to Safari 5, seems OK in Firefox 3.

Installed and can now no longer see YouTube video or any flash content (but can hear it).

Way to go, Adobe.

I'm sure all 4 remaining fans of flash are excited.

Flash 10.1 is indeed better than 10.0 - on everything except my 2010 MacBook Pro.

Instead of offering improved performance, full-screen video stutters with the Intel GPU - and doesn't trigger the discrete GPU (on the release 10.1). The Gala preview doesn't trigger the discrete GPU in many cases, even when the content is 720p.

When I manually switch my GPU to discrete, the new Flash 10.1 performs great - but I don't plan on leaving the discrete GPU on all the time just so Flash video plays better. Frustrating.

Are any other 2010 MacBook Pro readers experiencing the same problems?

anyone else notice that say you scrolling the TUAW page with the new flash 10.1 and you cursor goes over a youtube video (that is flash, not HTML5) your scrolling is stopped like you hit a brick wall. The only thing you can do to continue scrolling is to move your cursor off the flash object and your back on your way.

I noticed this with the "Gala" preview, which I uninstalled, and also when I installed Flash CS5. I did not know this but Flash CS5 installed 10.1 automatically. I uninstalled the 10.1 flash player and all was fixed.

I just want normal scrolling!!!!!

No excuse for a Mac centric blog to make such a reporting blunder as this.

Hardware acceleration for Flash on the Mac? Not yet. When it lands, it'll warrant a firework show and champagne.

There is a preview release of "gala" that supposedly offers hardware acceleration for Mac.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Read the whole post. You have to fully uninstall any existing versions of Flash Player first.

You might want to mention in your article that it also patches the critical vulnerability in 10.0 announced last week here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html

For some, this aspect is likely to be more important than better video playback.

Until today the only fix for Mac users was to install a pre-release version of the 10.1 line which may not be the best thing to do in a production environment.

The timing makes me wonder if 10.1 for OS X is really ready for prime time and wasn't just pushed out the door to patch the vulnerability, given the current environment of somewhat nasty press in the Apple/Adobe "feud" or whatever.