Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta 3

[JaLooNz]

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta 3 now available for PCs and netbooks

http://labs.adobe.co...shplayer10.html

• Download plug-in for Windows (EXE, 2.4 MB)
• Download active-x for Windows (EXE, 2.4 MB)
• Download plug-in for Macintosh (DMG, 12.0 MB)
• Download plug-in for Linux (TAR.GZ, 4.4 MB)

http://labs.adobe.co.../flashplayer10/

Changelog

Installation:

• *Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts (with UAC off) on Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Graphics:

• *DisplayObjects with overlapping strokes sometimes disappears when redrawn

• *[FP-3621] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer

• *[FP-2290] PerspectiveProjections have problems with click events

• *3D Facebook game renders incorrectly in Beta 1 and Beta 2 ( http://apps.facebook.com/dealornodeallive/ )

Networking:

• *The Settings dialog doesn’t correctly allow Local Storage requests. (2485167)

Audio/Video:

• *[FP-3567] Firefox Crash/Hang when running music on Playlist.com

• *[FP-3921] Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 crashes Internet Explorer 8 in 32bit mode on Playlist.com

• *In Firefox, clicking quickly on the stop music / play music button before it has completed loading the music, causes a crash (Bugzilla 542164)

• *[FP-3675] Windows energy saving does not work after viewing video in full-screen mode

• *Support for the Broadcom BCM70015 (“FLEA”) hardware decoder support is not yet enabled.

• *NetStream.Buffer.Full event is not fired correctly. Site in question - http://www.cracked.c...le-h-town.html. (2501240)

• *On Broadcom graphics accelerators, NetStream.Step.Notify event doesn’t fire when seeking backwards on video playback.

• *Video loads slowly or crashes on Internet Explorer when using Nvidia graphics card.

Text/Text Input:

• *[FP-3742, FP-3186] Characters appearing twice when typing in a text input field

• *Escaping and then unescaping 4 Japanese characters doesn't unescape the last character. (2504228)

• *In multiline input text field, 'End' key does not work correctly. It moves caret to left of last character.

• *[FP-3562] In certain situations (https://www.oceaniacruises.com/ships/dining.aspx) only one text line displayed in fields with multiple lines.

General:

• *General stability and performance improvements

• *[FP-383] ExternalInterface.objectID is not set

• *Performance has decreased for the ByteArray and Vector objects. (2498076)

• *Settings UI does not respond to clicks. Firefox Only / PPC. (2501976)

• *[FP-3226] Flash objects have to be clicked once before interaction is possible using the mouse

• *Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari 3 and Safari 4. (2472648)

• *[FP-3354] Certain games at the Atari site can cause a crash

• *[FP-3411] Performance of ByteArray and Vector classes dramatically lower than Flash Player 10. Runtime error 1221 is thrown on every third loaded image

• *Performance of describeType() has degraded.

• *File Reference filtering does not work properly on Mac OS.

• *[bugzilla 539328] describeType(Interface) output changed in FP v10.1

• *[bugzilla 487938] On Windows, invoking a modal dialog during a Javascript animation with SWF content causes Firefox to crash

• * [FP-792] Class registered with registerClassAlias is accessible through different application domain.

• *[FP-3238] FileReference.download defaultFileName is broken in OS X.

• *Rollover events don’t work properly in Mac OS X and Firefox in certain circumstances

• *AMF serialization doesn't work correctly with multiple ApplicationDomains

• *jibjab.com videos control toolbar does not respond properly to the mouse moves in IE browser

• *On Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, In the Google Chrome or Opera browsers, right-clicking to brings up the context menu at the bottom left of the desktop.

• *[bugzilla 534857] Flash Player Beta 10.1 disables Crash-reporter (Breakpad) in Firefox on Windows

• *ActionScript object creation in 10.1 is more than 50% slower than it was in 10.0

• *[FP-3526] On the Mac OS with Firefox, Flash Player playback pauses when bookmarks opened

• *[FP-3530] Safari crashes or quit suddenly on the Mac when switching to next scenario during play of http://www.scarygirl.com/world.php

• *[FP-3568] Some games fail to load ( http://www.greatdaygames.com/games/alus-revenge.aspx ) in Internet Explorer.

Browser

• *[FP-3765] Full screen mode doesn't work in Chrome

• *Firefox crashes when visiting Blackberry site while spoofing as IE (Bugzilla 476580)

• *In Chrome, Flash Player crash @ memcpy (29556)

http://labs.adobe.co...eleasenotes.pdf

[Dext3r]

Thank you

[Bryan000]

still doesn't work on revision3.com :/

and getting lots of mouse flashing when some flash ads are displaying

guess i'll continue to wait

[.Neo]

Does this bring the promised CPU reduction on systems running Mac OS X?

[torrentthief]

Wow that was a lot of bugs fixed, no wonder i uninstalled beta 2 so quickly, was really bad for me. Think i'll just wait for 10.1 final as revision3 isn't working according to the post a few posts up.

[zhangm Supervisor]

*[FP-3530] Safari crashes or quit suddenly on the Mac when switching to next scenario during play of http://www.scarygirl.com/world.php

So we still don't have x64 support in Flash, and Adobe still hasn't fixed a single text string typo that has broken PDF previews for two years - but thank god they fixed this!!!111

Priorities. Adobe has them.

[Kirkburn]

So we still don't have x64 support in Flash, and Adobe still hasn't fixed a single text string typo that has broken PDF previews for two years - but thank god they fixed this!!!111

Priorities. Adobe has them.

I'm sure the bug fixed was the underlying issue, not the specific scenario.

[Udedenkz]

Does flash still leech a lot of CPU (4, 5 time more than WMP + DXVA) with DXVA?

[bogas04]

WebGL in Firefox + This plugin = ?

[Chester0]

Does not work at all for me if Firefox 3.6 + 3.7a2 crashes always, going back to 10.0 :/

edit

10.0 crashes too now, reinstalled 10.1 beta 3 restarted pc, now works... O_o

Edited February 24, 2010 by Chester0

[Udedenkz]

WebGL in Firefox + This plugin = ?

methinks yes

Does not work at all for me if Firefox 3.6 + 3.7a2 crashes always, going back to 10.0 :/

EDIT: Doesn't crash here.

[Growled Member]

Thanks for the update. :)

[sabrex]

This is the first 10.1 beta that works properly on all the sites I normally visit. No crashes or unusual artifacts. Works very well so far. I'm not sure how much cpu it's using, but it seems faster than 10.0

[Malisk]

Being on Mac, can't wait for the final version of 10.1. It's even more needed here than on Windows. :s

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Being on Mac, can't wait for the final version of 10.1. It's even more needed here than on Windows. :s

Flash videos obliterate battery life on the MacBook/* Pro. I'll wait until the final version is released.

[erpster3]

So we still don't have x64 support in Flash

only x64 support of Flash 10.1 in Linux OSes

maybe Adobe will add x64 Mac/Windows support by the time Flash 10.1 reaches either release candidate or final release

[Guest]

Does this bring the promised CPU reduction on systems running Mac OS X?

http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

They won't add 64bit support until browsers are 64bit (or capable of loading 64bit plugin) and browsers won't "go" to 64bit until there's a reason to.

[hagjohn]

They won't add 64bit support until browsers are 64bit (or capable of loading 64bit plugin) and browsers won't "go" to 64bit until there's a reason to.

It's the chicken and the egg. 64 bit browser won't get mainstream unless there is support for 64bit by Flash, codecs and other plugins/programs.

64 bit IE loads and brings up pages so much more quicker than the 32 bit version on my system (close to the performance of Opera and Chrome). We are really missing out by not have 64 bit browsing.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Can this be used on Intel integrated video yet or still only upper nVidia and ATI stuff?

[Jayayess1190]

Can this be used on Intel integrated video yet or still only upper nVidia and ATI stuff?

Has worked on my Acer 3810t with GMA 4500 since the first beta.

[Quillz]

I get an error on Win7 when installing the non-ActiveX version.

[Elliott]

So we still don't have x64 support in Flash

Instead of petitioning Adobe for x64 support in Flash, petition your favorite browser to do out of process plugins (like Safari and Chrome) and then you won't have any problems. Hell, it'll probably improve the stability of said browser anyway.

[erpster3]

Instead of petitioning Adobe for x64 support in Flash, petition your favorite browser to do out of process plugins (like Safari and Chrome) and then you won't have any problems. Hell, it'll probably improve the stability of said browser anyway.

very good point Elliott. I may ask that in the mozilla forums to do OOPP.

At last the Youtube videos actually work with Flash 10.1 beta 3 on my WinXP SP3 computer. Previous betas of Flash 10.1 could not display youtube videos properly and showed messed up graphics.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

They already are doing OOPP in Firefox.

That won't allow for 64bit at the moment though, since the plugin host is still 32bit (and there's no reason to make 64bit Flash, etc.)