

There are several improvements and new features including support for peer-2-peer video, http streaming, smarter buffering, and so on.Īnother handy feature is support for the private mode in the browser. Streaming video and private browsingĪnother area that saw a lot of focus with the Flash Player 10.1 release is streaming video. In extreme cases, when the system memory is running out, it can shut down entirely. For example, Flash Player can reduce the power consumption for content running in background tabs. Adobe says the latest update has a smaller memory footprint and also a couple of new tricks up its sleeve. Optimizations have made Flash Player 10.1 faster than any other previous releases, but also, and this is even more important, more efficient in memory management. The runtime itself has seen a lot of improvements in the performance department. The same is true for 2D and 3D hardware acceleration. This results in better performance and power savings. For example, Flash Player can defer the decoding of an H.264 video to the GPU, which is generally much better equipped for this than the CPU, leaving the processor to handle other, more general tasks. It’s a very important feature especially for mobile or just underpowered devices. Hardware accelerationįrom a technical perspective, the big announcement in Flash Player 10.1 is the hardware acceleration.

director, Engineering at Adobe, announced. Flash Player 10.1 for Android will be coming later this month - the beta release is currently available in the Android market,” Paul Betlem, Sr. “Today I'm thrilled to announce that Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Plenty of improvements have been made to the streaming video features. Flash Player 10.1 also touts improved memory management and better performance. Chief among these is support for hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D graphics and for video playback.

Flash Player 10.1 is much more than a minor update, it comes with a broad set of new features and capabilities.

After months of betas and release candidates, the final bits of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (r53) are here.
