Flash Player 10.2 Beta Supports IE9’s Hardware Acceleration
Earlier this week, Adobe
announced a beta release of Flash Player 10.2 that includes Internet Explorer
9 hardware-accelerated rendering support, previously previewed
in Flash Player “Square.” Adobe
writes, “we’ve seen significant improvements in Flash Player
graphics performance—exceeding 35% in Internet Explorer 9 Beta compared to
Flash Player running in previous versions of IE.” Other features of the new
Flash Player 10.2 beta that mirror those available in IE9 include hardware-accelerated
video playback and sub-pixel text rendering enhancements.
We applaud Adobe’s work to harness the full power of the PC and their use
of the new hardware-acceleration-friendly
ISurfacePresenter interface of IE9. This new IE9 interface is intended specifically
to improve the performance of DirectX-based ActiveX controls.
If you’re one of the over 15 million users who have now downloaded
and installed
Internet Explorer 9 Beta and you’re in a beta kind of mood, you may
want to check out this beta
version of Flash and see how it performs in your environment. Like all beta
software, the beta of Flash Player 10.2 is pre-release software and may have bugs
and other incompatibilities.
—Ted Johnson, Program Manager Lead for Web Graphics
Comments
Anonymous
December 03, 2010
Why are they all 32-bit?Anonymous
December 03, 2010
64 bit is in "Square" release still, and won't be making it's way over until later.Anonymous
December 03, 2010
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December 03, 2010
Works great for me. Makes HD YouTube videos playable on my old Dell Dimension 2400 rig. I'm impressed, frankly. It's got a good video card, so hardware accelleration is actually breathing new life into the old thing.Anonymous
December 03, 2010
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December 03, 2010
Adobe's desperation is really showing, now that even the dinosaur of browsers is gaining HTML5 video support. Good riddance to this performance hog and marketing/malware backdoor.Anonymous
December 03, 2010
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December 03, 2010
I switched back to 10.1 in IE9 after just a few hours. 10.2 was completely messing some games and videos for me. Oddly enough, running the plugin version of 10.2 in Chrome did not throw up any problems on the same sites.Anonymous
December 03, 2010
@CVP: Indeed. Setting "wmode" to transparent or opaque disables hardware acceleration and makes it fall back on software.Anonymous
December 03, 2010
Why don't you bring the great features of win7 taskbar like using icons to identify tabs, grouping tabs, etc.. to the tabs bar of ie?Anonymous
December 03, 2010
when will the IE9 RC be released in the website? so it will be able to download? or the Beta2 ?Anonymous
December 04, 2010
I guess I'm still stuck with the older beta that supports 64bit browsers. Something that silverlight still needs to do. It is especially annoying that IE can't tell the difference between 32bit and 64bit add-ons so it continually bugs me to install silverlight.Anonymous
December 04, 2010
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December 04, 2010
If there's any consideration left to developers and basically the entire world population that uses the internet: bundle WebM codecs with IE9. Thank you.Anonymous
December 04, 2010
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December 04, 2010
derrr "site".Anonymous
December 04, 2010
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December 05, 2010
(I used the term "release" liberally there, of course.)Anonymous
December 05, 2010
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December 05, 2010
Does Internet Explore 9 support Ideographic Variation Sequence of UNICODE?Anonymous
December 06, 2010
Please add text area resize feature in IE9!Anonymous
December 06, 2010
Please add inline spell checking for IE9. Firefox and Chrome have had this for such a long time. IESpell is not the answer.Anonymous
December 06, 2010
Okay so I have been using Ave's HTML Explorer Thumbnails (www.aveapps.com/htmlpreviews.html) which is a thumbnail handler for HTML, MHT and URL files. It works on Windows 7 flawlessly until I install IE9. After installing IE9, as Windows Explorer is generating thumbnails for HTML/MHT files, I constantly hear the notification bar sound (which means IE9 is loading in the background?). Please fix this. I still don't get it. Why does IE9 not ship with built-in thumbnail and preview handlers for HTML, MHT and URL files??Anonymous
December 06, 2010
@(IE9 and HTML thumbnails) Did you report the bug on Connect (or using ALT X "Send feedback" ?Anonymous
December 06, 2010
Can someone from Microsoft please make a statement about shutting down the IE6/IE7/IE8/IE9 images at http://www.spoon.net/ ====================================================================================================== This was THE most useful resource for testing multiple versions of IE and the shutdown really ticked developers off! As a long time web developer of Enterprise Web Applications I've tried all the options out there to try and simplify testing IE and the lack of realistic options is a royal PITA. 1.) Multiple IEs - IE8 breaks the functionality of IE6's textboxes - thus its a NO-GO 2.) IETester - works great until you need to test popup interaction and then it fails - thus a NO-GO 3.) Virtual PC with timebombed images of IE6, IE7, IE8 - works ok, but the 12Gigs of HD space needed is frustrating when each full image of Windows dies 4 times a year, running a full Windows image is slow and you have to beg for updates because the releases are not co-ordinated and announced well at all - thus its a NO-GO 4.) IE Super Preview - Last I checked this did not allow full testing of IE user interaction, JavaScript DOM changes, popups etc. - thus its a NO-GO 5.) Multiple PC's to run multiple versions of windows and IE. With all the hardware, software, and physical space needed - its a NO-GO 6.) Spoon.net IEs - They work, they work just like local native apps once running, and there's no hacking of my real local IE install. - the ONLY problem with these IE's is that Microsoft shut them down Please understand that we (developers) just want something that works. Testing in multiple versions of IE is a pain to begin with and with IE9 on the horizon it is only getting worse. I'm not sure where the issue stands with Spoon, but I would really like a solution worked out fast. SteveAnonymous
December 07, 2010
@FremyCompany, feedback on Connect doesn't make any difference. It is closed saying "This is by design". They do create the illusion very successfully that they are listening to our feedback.Anonymous
December 09, 2010
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