Today, we're launching Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. So if you're still rocking some finely aged gear, you'll have to just content yourself with the awesomeness of 10.1.įlash Player 10.2 is Here: Available Now for Windows, Mac, and Linux Update: Flash Player 10.2 also marks Adobe's discontinuation of support for PowerPC-based Macs and Microsoft's Windows 2000 OS. Other new additions include a single-monitor full screen option for multi-display rigs, allowing you to max out a Flash video on one panel while keeping the others free, IE9 hardware acceleration support, and some nifty sub-pixel text rendering enhancements to make our web lives marginally nicer to look at.
It'll need to be enabled by content-providing sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Brightcove - all of whom are already on the job - but once that's done, Adobe says 1080p playback will cost you no more than 15 percent of your CPU cycles. Its biggest new feature is the Stage Video API, which promises to drastically reduce the processor load of playing back high-res video.
Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 has just exited beta testing and is now available for download to Windows, Mac and Linux computers. Should you be one of those (sensible) people who don't use software until all the Greek letters are removed from its name, we've got some happy news for you.
