Flash Player 10 Coming Around the Final Bend
Adobe has issued its second release candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a few new features.
Among these new features is the ability to use graphical filters and effects in Adobe’s native Pixel Bender programming language for interactive 3D animation. The text layout engine provides new controls such as ligatures and right-to-left and vertical text rendering. Flash Player 10 integrates with the monitor’s ICC color management so that color graphics appear as developers intend them.
Adobe also streamlined performance. Visual processing tasks are now moved to the video card to unburden the CPU. New audio and video features promise an improved rich media content presentation, especially when combined with Adobe’s upcoming Flash Media Server. The Dynamic Streaming functionality should serve to make videos playable uninterrupted and in the best quality, independent of the current bandwidth. Adobe’s new UDP-based Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) should help transfer data more efficiently and securely. The integrated Speex audio codec is a viable alternative to the commercially available Nellymoser Asao codec for low latency audio.
Adobe plans to follow up with support in Flash Play 10 for Video4Linux v2 (V4L2), Mozilla’s Network Security Services (NSS), Linux WMODE (transparent and opaque windowless mode), large bitmaps up to 4096x4096 pixels, and limited full screen keyboard access.
Flash Player 10 RC2 is downloadable from the Adobe Labs website. Adobe recommends removing previous Flash Player versions prior to installation.
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Overlapping menus
It's a workaround, not a solution, but at least it's simple and effective.
Overlapping on drop-down menus
Maybe they fixed the overlapping issues in the Linux version this time?
Fix that, and I'll be relatively happy.
Swamping Process
Still horrible performance
64-bit Linux version?