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Fortunately, Adobe says YouTube, Vimeo, and Brightcove are already hard at work implementing the technology.Īnother great new feature of note is multiple display full screen support - finally, you can watch flash video full screen in one monitor while working on other things in the other. However, developers will have to build in support for Stage Video at the delivery end before end users will see the advantages. or rather, not notice, as your computer's fan won't spin up to jet turbine speeds anymore as soon as you begin playing a video.

That's the kind of playback performance improvement that you'll notice. We noticed a marked drop in impact on the CPU with Flash Player 10.2 versus 10.1 - Firefox's plugin process went from over 60% CPU usage to less than 20% while playing the 720p version of YouTube's demo clip. We did a quick before & after test using Firefox 4 on a MacBook Pro 3.06GHz with a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card. Building on the H.264 hardware-accelerated decoding found in Flash Player 10.1, Stage Video brings faster and smoother HD video playback while using dramatically less processing power.Īdobe says that testing on supported systems (Mac OS X 10.6.4 and later with integrated graphics cards, such as the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M and GeForce GT 330M - click here to find out if your Mac's got what you need), they've found 10.2 to be up to 34 percent more efficient. One of the main new features of Flash Player 10.2 is Stage Video. However, Power PC Macs of old are not supported in this version. Adobe has officially released Flash Player 10.2 for Mac, and it's available for download now.

Download mozilla firefox for mac os x 10.2