Welcome to Adobe Flash Player 10.2 software! This document is for users developing content for Flash Player 10.2 and addresses issues that are not discussed in the Flash Professional or Flex documentation. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available.
Install Adobe Flash Player on Debian. Adobe Flash Player plugin used to watch videos and interactive web content in browsers. Today HTML5 is recommended which offers more features so we don’t need to rely on Adobe Flash Player to watch videos and interactive content but some of the websites still need Adobe Flash Player to watch their content.
For current Flash Player system requirements, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/.
The Adobe Flash Player 10.2 no longer supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and Macintosh PowerPC-based computers. As mentioned in the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, Adobe is discontinuing support of PowerPC-based computer and will no longer provide security updates. Support is being discontinued because of performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.
Flash Player 10.2 supports the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Adobe recommends that all Flash Player users on supported systems update to the most recent version of the player through the Flash Player Download Center.
Ensure that you have the latest version of Flash Player installed by clicking here to check the version you have installed and the latest shipping version for each platform.
The first public release of Flash Player 10.2 is version 10.2.152. Users should update to the newest version of Flash Player 10.2 for content development and testing. Updated versions of the content debugger and other players are posted on the Flash Player Support Center Downloads page.
For Flash Player installation instructions, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/.
For uninstallation instructions, visit http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer_uninstall_en
Flash Player 10.2 contains several new features and enhancements:
A new method for video playback in Flash Player allows developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class high definition (HD) playback performance.Stage Video dramatically decreases processor usage enabling higher frame rates and reduced memory usage to deliver HD quality video on a broad range of devices.
Full screen content will remain in full-screen on secondary monitors, allowing users to watch full-screen content while working on another display.
Flash Player takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.
Developers can define custom native mouse cursors, enabling user experience enhancements and improved performance.
Improved readability of text in Flash Player, especially for complex character-based languages.
Flash Player 10.2.152 includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB11-02.
[FP-###] denotes bugs that are filed in the Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue Management System https://bugbase.adobe.com/)
Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.32 (Windows) and 10.2.152.33 (Mac) addresses the following issues:
Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB11-05.
Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB11-07.
General
Flash Player 10.2 is not yet supported in development builds of Solaris 11. Oracle recommends running Flash Player 10.2 on Solaris 10 until the next developer drop of Solaris 11 is avaiable.
SWF content does not load after upgrading from Mac OSX 10.6.2 Server to 10.6.5/10.6.6 Server (2793343)
When an URL containing & or % is saved to a SharedObject file redirectSO.sol all of the parameters after these characters are stripped off. (1909140)
CSS styles should not cascade across sandbox boundaries. (2261815)
startDrag and stopDrag do not work when the target is a 2D child of a 3D parent. (2200972)
POST requests with no body reverting to GET. (2223288)
XML.appendChild does not function correctly when published as SWF10; works fine as SWF9. (2340839)
Behavior of Socket write methods is inconsistent on different platforms. (2580727)
Last SWF Loaded sets scriptTimeLimit. (2500755)
[FP-1569] AS3 Timeline: Child Sprite ADDED_TO_STAGE event is fired twice. (2300936)
AS3 Timeline: First frame of Movie Clip animation played twice when created and added to stage with ActionScript. (2520095)
[FP-4423] onEnterFrame gets called more often than necessary. (2614589)
When Out of Memory Handling is triggered in the Standalone Player, the Standalone Player simply exits without displaying an out of memory error. (2555713)
On Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 systems, users may encounter a limit on the amount of data they can upload at one time via FileReference (2812090).
Audio/Video
Stage Video accelerated rendering is always available when wmode=direct and when Flash Player is in full screen mode, regardless of wmode. Stage Video acceleration may be available in other wmode settings but it is not guaranteed.
Adobe is aware of issues with specific GPU driver versions and has notified manufacturers of any issues discovered during testing. Adobe recommends updating to the latest GPU driver versions to take advantage of the new Stage Video capabilities and other accelerated rendering features.
H.264 Video Hardware acceleration is not available on some Macintosh platforms. Please Refer the Apple Developer Connection technote on which Macintosh configurations support Hardware decoding: (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html)
H.264 Hardware decoding on Linux is available as an experimental feature and has been tested on NVidia GT 330 and Broadcom BCM70015 GPUs. Users may choose to enable hardware decoding by adding EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in an mms.cfg configuration file. Users may experiance instability and crashes while watching hardware accelerated video. Please report any issues to http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer.
H.264 Video Hardware acceleration is not available for DRM-protected content on Broadcom graphics chips.
For all supported Intel GPUs, we recommend using an Aero windows theme. Performance is significantly improved for fullscreen playback with Aero-enabled windows environments.
On some Macintosh systems, for content using Stage Video, dragging the window to a secondary monitor while video is playing and then launching into full screen mode causes the video rendering to be corrupted. (2802209)
Full screen exit after giving second window focus on dual screen setup on Mac (Firefox 3 only). (2802908)
Apple MacBook, MacBook Air or Mac Mini systems using the Intel GMA X3100 GPU may have rendering issues when attempting to watch GPU rendered video (2813404). To work around this issue, users can disable hardware acceleration or download and install the beta version of Flash Player 10.3 which resolves this issue. To disable hardware acceleration, please visit http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html. To install the Flash Player 10.3 beta, please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer10-3/.
Mac users may run into rendering issues with certain live streams due to an incompatibility between the stream encoding and the hardware decoder. We are aware of this issue and are working with Apple to resolve it. Users may workaround the issue by pausing and then unpausing the live stream. Developers can work around this issue by forcing the video to be decoded in software - create two Video objects, attach the stream to the first, then stop it and attach the stream to the second Video object (2819870, 2818959, 2779420).
Windows users with systems using NVidia Optimus technology which has two GPUs that switch dynamically depending on the graphics operation would occasionally see a black or green screen when trying to view video in fullscreen. We are working with NVidia to resolve the issue (2745863, 2821031).
On http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday, users may experiance video pausing when entering/exiting full screen mode (2803013) and incorrect positioning of videos (2794616, 7296598)
The .f4v files created by AME CS5 cannot be called by onXMPData. (2603890)
Text/Text Input
On Windows XP, text does not render correctly when the system color quality is set to 16 bit. Workaround: set color quality to 32 bit. (2782569)
[FP-1982] appendText when appending from another text field does not append in the correct location when the source string contains 'n'. (2341522)
Classic Text: Large font sizes are not drawing correctly on stage on in exported SWF Movies. (2483664)
Scale text with Free Transform scales text incorrectly goes beyond text boundary and is cut off and too big. (2486588)
[FP-2256] Text flows outside text field with advanced anti aliasing. (2447161)
Content Protection/Output Protection
Content Protection is not available on the Solaris platform or on mobile devices.
Content Protection is not available on the Standalone Player or External Player.
Videos that require Output Protection will only playback on Windows platforms.
Installation/Uninstallation
The Flash Player MSI installers report a generic error message for all installation failures (error 1722). More descriptive installation failure information can be found in the installation log file. See this TechNote for more information.
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Reporting Bugs
Found a bug? Please send the detailed bug information via the online Adobe Bug and Issue Management System.
SWF-based H.264 video may be decoded by your graphics hardware. There may be video bugs that can only be reproduced with your particular video card and driver. When reporting a bug involving video, it is essential to note your graphics card and driver, along with your operating system and browser, so that we can reproduce and investigate issues. Please be sure to include this information as described in Instructions for Reporting Video Bugs.
Note: Due to the high volume of email we receive, we are unable to respond to every request.
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Use the following steps to allow Flash content in Microsoft Edge:
Click Settings near the bottom of the menu that appears
Click View advanced settings under the Advanced Settings header
In Microsoft Edge navigate to the website that is missing Flash content
On the top right-hand side of the address bar you may notice icon
Click icon which will display a flyout Adobe Flash content was blocked
Click Allow onceto allow Flash content to run on that page for just one time.
In Microsoft Edge navigate to the website that is missing Flash content
Click the icon in the missing Flash content to display a flyout indicating Adobe Flash content was blocked.
Click Allow once to allow Flash content to run on that page for just one time.
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