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Flash Player 10 is released! Flash Player 9 it was a great era!
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I started working at Adobe just before Flash Player 9 was released and it has been a real workhorse changing an entire industry. FP9 enabled Flex 2, introduced ActionScript 3, new API's, a radically new event model, and jittification( if there is such a thing). Flash Player 9 you had a great run but like all good things they must end. I wish you a fond farewell, you were a great player but we need something new.Introducing Flash Player 10!
Simply put FP10 is the most powerful player ever created. It sports a new graphics engine for custom filters, a new Vector Class, a new text engine(RTL anyone), perspective transform, dynamic sound generation, local file access, Speex audio codec, hardware acceleration, a better garbage collector and unloading Loader classes (ahhhh...), and a new vector drawing API enabling FXG. Features here. It is easily the best player release in a very long time and the engineering teams have been working round the clock. Simply put this release rocks. The 10th version of the most widely installed software in the history of software.
Go Flash Platform, Go Flash Player 10.
Flash Player 9 we hardly knew ya.
Cheers,
Ted :)
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From the Adobe page linked above:
"Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough web experiences and is installed on more than 98% of Internet-connected desktops"
Goodness, that was fast - 98% penetration for Flash Player 10 on the day of release!
Great news Ted! Any word when we'll be able to use FP10 features in AIR?
@dan_schultz - 30 days to MAX!
@dazweeja - Flash Player is installed on 98% of computers. These installed players are all one click upgradable to Flash Player 10. As an ecosystem/platform we are 98% installed. Individual players vary but always reach 98% within 12 months.
Give or take a few months. The thing is that Flash Player gets distributed faster and faster with every version.
Ted :)
That's great news Ted! congrats to the entire team. Any news on when we might see the debugging version? or can we configure output of trace statements in the normal version of the plugin?
You should change the counter from the upper right corner to flash player 10
flash updates always mess up for me. after each time i can never use flash again in IE, sometimes it still works in firefox. last time when i upgraded to 9, i couldnt use it for half a year and i couldn't find any site that had a fix for me until 1 day in a porn forum someone suggested finding a copy of d3dx9_32.dll for my system folder and it worked, but it doesn't work this time. i shouldn't have clicked update on that automatic update message. why did it even come out on startup? why is the updater running in the background? maybe it's a problem with my IE
@munkyboy - The debug version is here, the first download in the list: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
("The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins")
I know there is a 98% penetration of Flash 9 according to the adobe site.
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html
the wierd thing is that adobe doesn't list flash player 10 in the list.