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Adobe has officially launched a new version of its Flash Player, and although Steve Jobs, like most of the Apple community, doesn't like Flash, with version 10.2 it may be flashing to better times. The new Flash Player should use significantly less processors and work better. However, Macs with Power PCs are no longer supported.

One of the most important parts of Flash Player 10.2 is Stage Video. It is built on H.264 encoding and is supposed to fundamentally improve the hardware acceleration of video and bring it faster and better playback. Stage Video should therefore minimally load the processor.

Adobe tested its new product on supported systems (Mac OS X 10.6.4 and later with integrated graphics cards such as NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M) and came up with the results that the new Flash Player 10.2 is up to 34% more economical.

The server also performed a short test TUAW. On a MacBook Pro 3.06GHz with an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card, he launched Firefox 4, let it play on YouTube video in 720p and compared to Flash Player in version 10.1 saw major changes. CPU usage dropped from 60% to less than 20%. And that's really the difference you'll notice.

However, it will take some time to implement Stage Video, as developers will first need to embed this API into their products. However, Adobe says YouTube and Vimeo are already hard at work on the implementation.

Lest we forget, another great new feature in version 10.2 is support for multiple displays. This means that you can play a flash video in full screen on one monitor, while working quietly on the other.

All other details can be found at support Adobe, you can download Flash Player 10.2 <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.

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