Adobe announces 10.2 beta of Flash Player
For those who crave being on the bleeding edge of browser plug-in technology, this is your lucky day -- Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 beta is now downloadable for the Mac, as well as for Windows and Linux machines.
The big advance in this build is preliminary support for Stage Video, the new playback infrastructure that is intended to further reduce Flash's performance impact while playing back video content. While previous versions of Flash Player 10 leveraged GPU acceleration for video decoding, 10.2 offloads nearly all the video pipeline tasks onto the GPU to alleviate most of the CPU load.
The new version also improves text rendering and, for dual-screen machines, allows full-screen playback on one monitor while allowing you to work on another monitor. Adobe's full announcement post is here; if you want to download the plug-in, you can get it here and then check out the Stage Video demo clips.
[via CNET MacFixit]
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For those who crave being on the bleeding edge of browser plug-in technology, this is your lucky day -- Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 beta is...
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I wish I could run Flash free, but there's a lot of sites that still require it and a lot of the new HTML5 video players are extremely buggy or don't work the same way, so I have to stay with it. So any performance enhancements will work for me. If Chrome will let me replace it...
December 01 2010 at 3:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replysurely they should be doing this on the 64bit not the 32bit... why on earth would they putting out a beta on, relatively speaking, redundant software
December 01 2010 at 1:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBecause It is Adobe; it is what they do.
Redundant software using redundant technology for redundant systems for the purpose of displaying redundant content.
Adobe haven't been progressive since Postscript matured into PDF.
If you don't use Flash anymore then don't comment. There are plenty of people who do and we are tired of you.
December 01 2010 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThose of us happy with the status quo are tired of you annoying dissenters pushing for new, open technologies. Please just be quiet— I really like the way my MacBook Pro warms my lap when I play video.
December 01 2010 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply10.2 Beta with 1080p still uses 50% cpu...
27" iMac 2.8ghz i7 quad core.
Note this is a 32-bit plug-in. If you are using the 'Square' 64-bit beta (currently version 10,3,162,28), Adobe suggests you continue using that.
December 01 2010 at 7:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOn my iMac i7 scrolling seems to be smoother with 14 tabs open in Opera 10.63.
I have not checked the Flash process for cpu usage separately.
Sorry Adobe, it's still taking out over 20% CPU on a 3.2Ghz quadcore system with a 9800GTX.
Please just stick to the Creative Suite stuff, (but maybe make Acrobat less obscenely bloaty), and let Flash die.
I just tried the new version on my iMac (Core2Duo 3.06GHz, 9400m, Mac OS X 10.6.5). The CPU usage is still at aroung 26-29% for the flash process.
Absoloutly no change from 10.2
I’ve been running flash free for a while now, this ain’t gonna bring me back.
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