Flash Player 10.

1 Release Candidate Release Notes

Please read these Release Notes carefully before downloading the Flash Player 10.1 Release
Candidate.

• System Requirements
• Features and Enhancements
• Uninstallation
• Installation
• Fixed Issues
• Known Issues
• Reporting Issues

Flash Player 10.1 includes bug fixes and enhancements. These release notes document known and fixed
issues related to the prerelease versions of Flash Player 10.1.

Flash Player 10 for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris computers is currently available
from www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer. To learn more about the new features added in Flash Player 10,
see http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/.

The Flash Player prerelease is available in all languages; however, the prerelease installers are only in
English and we can only accept feedback in English at this time. Web versions of Flash Player 10.1 are
available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms in this Release Candidate. This release also
includes the first Beta builds for Solaris platforms.

The build number for the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux Release Candidate is 10.1.53.7. The build
number for the Solaris Beta 1 is 10.1.51.96.

System Requirements

System requirements for platforms supported by Flash Player 10 are available at

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/.

Note: The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, expected in the first half of 2010, will be the last version to
support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-
based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. This
unavailability is due to performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC
architecture.

H.264 Video Hardware Acceleration Support

Flash Player 10.1 supports hardware decoding of H.264 video on Windows platforms when running with
supported hardware. Use the following recommended hardware and driver combinations to experience
hardware acceleration of H.264 videos in Flash Player 10.1. Unless otherwise noted, the following
hardware will support H.264 hardware decoding with supported drivers under Windows XP 32-bit,
Windows Vista (32/64-bit), and Windows 7 (32/64-bit).

Please note that, because some mobile and notebook systems require customized drivers, driver updates
for some systems must be obtained directly from OEMs rather than from the chipset vendor websites
below.
When reporting a bug involving video, it is essential to note your graphics card and driver, along with your
operating system and browser, so we can reproduce and investigate issues. Please be sure to include
this information as described in Instructions for Reporting Video Bugs.

AMD/ATI

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on AMD/ATI products with
UVD2 with the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite, starting with version 9.11 for the ATI Radeon™ family of
products, and driver release 8.68 for the ATI FirePro™ family of products.

Family Product

Radeon Radeon HD 4xxx (and higher)

Mobility Radeon Mobility Radeon HD 4xxx series (and higher)

Integrated/Motherboard Radeon HD 3xxx (and higher)

FirePro FirePro V3750, FirePro V7750, FirePro V8700, and FirePro V8750 (and
later)

The ATI Catalyst Software Suite contains all the components required for your video solution to function,
and includes the individual components for all ATI Radeon video cards and motherboard/integrated video
products (ATI Radeon Video cards, ATI Radeon and Mobility Radeon graphics processors) and includes
the Catalyst Control Center. The individual Catalyst components may also be downloaded if you only need
a specific driver or language pack for the Catalyst Control Center.

For the latest AMD/ATI drivers, see http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx. For some

mobile and notebook systems, drivers may only be available from the OEM directly. Notebook drivers are
not available from the AMD website.

Broadcom

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on the Broadcom
BCM70012 as well as the BCM70015 video decoding chipset, found in systems with Broadcom Crystal HD
Enhanced Video Accelerator hardware. Driver support is available at
http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd.

Intel

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on Intel® 4 Series Chipset
family and the all New 2010 Intel® Core™ Processor Family with Intel® HD Graphics starting with the
graphics driver version 15.16.5.2021(8.15.10.2021) for 32/64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7.

For the Atom/Intel® GMA 500 chipset, hardware decode is supported starting with the graphics driver
®
version 5.2.1.2020 (8.14.10.2020) for 32-bit Windows 7. Fullscreen mode on Intel GMA 500 chipsets
running on Windows 7 requires the Aero theme.

The drivers are available at http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx.

Automatically detect the latest driver for your system by using this link:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/detect.htm.

To determine if you have a supported Intel platform listed above:

1. Right-click on Desktop -> Personalize -> Display -> Change Display Settings- Advanced Settings. The
Adapter Type should be Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family or Intel® HD Graphics”.

NVIDIA

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 offers GPU-acceleration for NVIDIA ION and supported NVIDIA GeForce and
Quadro-powered PCs. The latest drivers are available at http://www.nvidia.com/drivers, and the latest list
of supported GPUs is available at http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpus_supporting_adobeflash.html.

Features and Enhancements

The prerelease contains several new features and enhancements:

Flash Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised
Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices.

Support for new platforms

Flash Player 10.1 will be available for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks
and other Internet-connected devices, allowing your content to reach your customers wherever they are.
As with Flash Player 10, this release also supports Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”)
desktop operating systems.

The consistent Flash Player browser-based runtime is the most productive way to deliver content to users
across operating systems and devices. Runtime consistency reduces the cost of creating, testing and
deploying content across different device, software, network and user contexts and helps improve
business results.

Designed for mobility

To make it possible to deploy SWF content on smartphones and other mobile devices that have limited
processing power and memory availability compared to PCs, a tremendous amount of work has gone into
to making Flash Player 10.1 “ready for mobility”. This work includes performance improvements, such as
rendering, scripting, memory, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations, in addition to hardware
acceleration of graphics and video. Improvements in memory utilization and management, start-up time,
CPU usage, and rendering/scripting performance benefit PCs as well as mobile devices.

Flash Player 10.1 also introduces new mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device
capabilities – including support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer input --
bringing unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the mobile browsing experience.

Mobile text input

Flash Player 10.1 provides support for use of native device virtual keyboards with TextField support if no
physical keyboard is detected. A virtual keyboard is automatically raised and lowered in response to focus
changes on text fields when editing text on mobile devices supporting a virtual keyboard to enable
unobstructed and intuitive text editing. The focused text field is centered in the visible region of the page
and appropriately zoomed/scrolled to ensure it is not obscured by the virtual keyboard. Upon screen
rotation, incoming calls, or other system events, any already existing text input is retained. The virtual
keyboard works with TextField but does not currently work with the Text Layout Framework or other Flash
Text Engine text.

Multi-touch and gestures

Developers can take advantage of the latest hardware and operating system user interaction capabilities
using new ActionScript 3 APIs for multi-touch and native gesture events. Create multi-touch aware content
for a wide range of devices as well as multi-touch capable PCs running Microsoft Windows 7. Interact with
multiple objects simultaneously or work with native gestures, such as pinch, scroll, rotate, scale and two-
finger tap.

Accelerometer input

A new Accelerometer class allows developers to read acceleration values in X, Y and Z axes from native
device accelerometer sensors in ActionScript. Leverage accelerometer input on supported devices for
user input control and to control screen orientation. Developers can specify the rate of accelerometer
updates to conserve battery life.

Screen orientation (mobile only)

SWF content can adjust to screen orientation changes, such as switching between portrait and landscape
modes, consistent with built-in applications on devices. Event information gives developers the option to
change the layout or format of their content when reorientation occurs, whether this occurs because of
accelerometer input or other user input (e.g., when a slider keyboard opens).

Optimized SWF management for mobile (mobile only)

Flash Player 10.1 optimizes SWF loading and playback for mobile CPU and memory limitations to provide
a better user experience. Instances are loaded or deferred based on SWF priority, visibility and available
memory and CPU resources to enable more immediate browsing experiences without waiting for every
SWF on a page to load. Developers can indicate SWF priority through a new HTML parameter,
hasPriority. Deferred instances are loaded after the HTML page load is complete, and offscreen and
invisible instances are started when they become visible. Flash Player will also automatically pause SWF
playback it is not in view or the foreground application, for example when a call is received or alarm goes
off, to reduce CPU utilization, battery usage and memory usage.

Sleep mode (mobile only)

The Flash Player timer slows down when the mobile device goes into screen-saver or similar mode to
reduce CPU and battery consumption on mobile devices. The timer returns to the default setting when a
wake-up event is triggered. There is no interruption in audio/video playback. Incoming phone calls pause
Flash Player.

Graphics hardware acceleration (mobile only)

A GPU-based vector renderer replaces the software renderer on smartphones and other mobile devices,
resulting in faster rendering performance for more expressive user experiences while consuming less
power. Supports hardware acceleration of all rendering, including vector graphics, bitmaps, 3D effects,
filters, color transforms, alpha, device and embedded text, Saffron type, and cacheAsBitmap.

H.264 video hardware decoding

Flash Player 10.1 introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth, high quality video
with minimal overhead across mobile devices and PCs. Using available hardware to decode video offloads
tasks from the CPU, improving video playback performance, reducing system resource utilization, and
preserving battery life.

Adaptive frame rate (mobile only)

Flash Player will monitor and lower the SWF frame rate to provide greater processing power for rendering,
which can improve content usability and conserve CPU utilization on resource constrained mobile devices.
If the frame rate drops below the threshold, Flash Player will drop frames to achieve the defined default
frame rate of the SWF.

Developer productivity

Global error handler

The new global error handler enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors
that weren’t part of a try/catch statement. Improve application reliability and user experience by catching
and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages. When using the global error
handler in a SWF running in the debug player, error pop-ups will not be shown. The Global error handler is
disabled in the current build, but will be available in a future beta refresh of Flash Player 10.1

Globalization support

New ActionScript globalization APIs allow Flash Player to use the values chosen in the operating system
preferences to process text and lists and present information based on location context, without any
knowledge of locale requirements. Choose a specific format independent of the currently selected locale
on the operating system. Locale specific information and processing can include: date, time, currency and
number formatting; currency and number parsing; string comparison for sorting or searching for text; and
upper/lower case conversions.

Enhanced browser integration

Flash Player 10.1 offers enhanced conformance to consistent browser usability guidelines, ensuring
optimized user experiences and improved user control over privacy.

Browser privacy mode (desktop only)

Flash Player 10.1 abides by the host browser's "private browsing" mode, where local data and browsing
activity are not persisted locally, providing a consistent private browsing mechanism for SWF and HTML
content. Private local shared objects behave like their public variants as long as Flash Player is in
memory and local shared objects created during private browsing are removed when returning to public
browsing mode. Existing shared objects are preserved but inaccessible until private browsing is turned off.
Libraries in the Flash Player cache, like the Flex framework, are unaffected by private mode. Supported in
Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. No developer action required.
Out-of-memory management

Flash Player 10.1 prevents out-of-memory browser crashes by shutting down instances where a SWF
attempts to allocate more memory than is available on the device. When a SWF tries to allocate more
memory than is available on a device, Flash Player 10.1 adds logic to shut down Flash Player to prevent
the browser from crashing. Users will receive notification to restart the SWF, or will see a notice to refresh
the page if all instances must be shutdown.

Expanded options for high quality media delivery

Flash Player 10.1 includes a number of media quality of service improvements and is ready to take
advantage of upcoming Adobe media servers that will provide new ways to deliver rich media experiences
and create new business models. With new HTTP streaming and content protection features, premium
audio and video content can be securely delivered within the browser. Streaming performance is
enhanced with improved support for live events, buffer control and peer assisted networking. Network
context-aware services, like adaptive frame rate, will enable smooth, uninterrupted media playback and
improved resource utilization on mobile devices.

Content protection (desktop only; output protection Windows only; requires Adobe Flash Access 2.0
SDK expected to be available the first half of 2010)

Media protected using the upcoming Adobe Flash Access 2.0 SDK can be played back securely in Flash
Player 10.1 to support a wide range of business models, including video-on-demand, rental, and electronic
sell-through, for streaming as well as download. Using industry-standard cryptography, Adobe Flash
Access 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 provides a robust environment to protect content so it remains safe from
tampering or capture throughout its lifecycle. Flash Player 10.1 supports output protection on Windows,
enabling content providers to specify requirements for protection of analog and digital outputs, providing
additional safeguards against unauthorized recording. Note: Encrypted content cannot be hardware
accelerated in this release of Flash Player.

Peer-assisted networking (requires “Stratus” on Adobe Labs,

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/)

The RTMFP protocol now supports groups, which enables an application to segment its users to send
messages and data only between members of the group. Application level multicast provides one (or a
few) -to-many streaming of continuous live video and audio live video chat using RTMFP groups.

HTTP streaming

HTTP streaming enables delivery of video-on-demand and live streaming using standard HTTP servers, or
from HTTP servers at CDNs, leveraging standard HTTP infrastructure and SWF-level playback
components. The addition of HTTP streaming will enable expanded protocol options to deliver live and
recorded media to Flash Player, including full content protection for HTTP streamed video with Flash
Access 2.0.

Stream reconnect (requires FMS 3.5.3 server)

Stream reconnect allows an RTMP stream to continue to play through the buffer even if the connection is
disrupted, thereby making media experiences more tolerant of short term network failures and enabling
non-disruptive video playback. When a connection is re-established the stream resumes playback.
Developers can add re-connection logic in ActionScript to re-establish server connection and resume
streaming without any disruption in the video.

Smart seek (Requires FMS 3.5.3 server)

Smart seek allows you to seek within the buffer and introduces a new "back" buffer so you can easily
rewind or fast forward video without going back to the server, reducing the start time after a seek. Smart
seek can speed and improve the seeking performance of streamed videos and enable the creation of slow
motion, double time, or “instant replay” experiences for streaming video.

Buffered stream catch-up

Buffered stream catch-up allows developers to set a target latency threshold that triggers slightly
accelerated video playback to ensure that live video streaming stays in sync with real time over extended
playback periods.

Fast Switch (previously called Dynamic Streaming enhancements) (requires FMS 4 server)

The Dynamic Streaming capability introduced in Flash Player 10 and FMS 3.5 is enhanced to improve
switching times between bitrates, reducing the time to receive the best content quality for available
bandwidth and processing speed. Users no longer need to wait for the buffer to play through, resulting in a
faster bitrate transition time and an uninterrupted video playback experience, regardless of bandwidth
fluctuations.

Microphone access (desktop only)

Access binary data of the live and continuous waveform coming from the microphone to create new types
of audio applications, such as audio recording for transcoding, karaoke, vocoder voice manipulation,
sonographic analysis, pitch detection, and more.

Uninstallation

Please uninstall any previous versions of Flash Player before installing this prerelease build. Prerelease
builds of uninstallers for Windows and Macintosh are now available for download from this prerelease
program; these can be used to uninstall either previous shipping versions or prerelease versions of Flash
Player.

Windows

Use one of the following options:

A. Use the prerelease uninstaller

a. Save the uninstaller, and wait for it to download completely.
b. An uninstaller icon will appear on your desktop.
c. Open the Windows Command Prompt (Run > cmd).
d. Navigate to the directory where the installer was downloaded.Run the uninstaller with the -
force command, e.g.:

Uninstall_FlashPlayer_RC_04-05-10_En.exe -force

B. Run the installer with the -uninstall -force command

a. Save the installer, and wait for it to download completely.
 b. Open the Windows Command Prompt (Run > cmd).
c. Navigate to the directory where the installer was downloaded.
d. Run the installer with the -uninstall -force command, e.g.:

Install_FlashPlayer_AX_RC_04-05-10_En.exe -uninstall -force

Macintosh

Use the prerelease uninstaller:

1. Save the uninstaller, and wait for it to download completely.

2. An uninstaller icon will appear on your desktop. Double-click on it and follow the prompts.

Linux

For manual removal (for users who installed the plug-in via .tar.gz), delete the libflashplayer.so binary
file in the plugins folder of your browser. Refer to your browser vendor for the location of this folder.

For RPM removal:

• As root, enter in terminal:

o # rpm -e flash-plugin
o Click Enter and follow prompts

These instructions can also be used to uninstall previous prerelease versions of Flash Player. To revert to
the shipping version of Flash Player 10, follow the instructions above, then install the shipping version of
Flash Player 10 from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.

Installation

Windows and Macintosh

1. Save the Installer to your desktop, and wait for it to download completely.
2. An Installer icon will appear on your desktop. Double-click on it.
3. You may be prompted to close open browser windows to continue with the installation.
4. You can verify the version you have installed by visiting the About Flash page.

Linux

Installation instructions for tar.gz:

1. Click the download link to begin installation. A dialog box will appear asking you where to
save the file.
2. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
3. Unpackage the file.
4. Copy the libflashplayer.so file to the plugins folder of your browser. Refer to your browser
vendor for the location of this folder.
Solaris

Click the download link to begin installation. A dialog box will ask you where to save the Installer. The following
section assumes that you have unpacked the Flash Player archive (tar.bz2) into the top level of your user
directory. Your user directory is referred to as $HOME. Flash Player can be installed in two ways:

A. Install Flash Player system-wide, making it available to all users of the computer

-or-

B. Install Flash Player in a user account, making it available only to that user.

A. Installing Flash Player System-Wide:

1. You will need root access to the computer to install Flash Player system-wide.
2. Copy Flash Player (libflashplayer.so) into the Firefox/Mozilla plug-in directory.
3. Restart Firefox/Mozilla.
4. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should
see Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash Player 10.0"

B. Installing Flash Player in a User Account:

1. If you have not already used Firefox/Mozilla from the user account, launch Netscape/Mozilla and close it. This will
create a preferences directory (/.mozilla) in your home directory.
2. Create a directory named "plugins" in the Firefox/Mozilla preferences directory. If the mkdir command reports the
error "cannot make directory: File exists", this means that the directory was already present and did not need to
be created.
3. Copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt into the plug-in directory.
4. Restart Firefox/Mozilla
5. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should
see Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash Player 10.0"

Fixed Issues

[FP-###] denotes bugs that are filed in the Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue Management System
(https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer).

Bugs marked with a “*” are new for the Release Candidate.

Installation:

• *In some circumstances, Flash Player will not install on Windows Vista. (2563102)
• Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts (with
UAC off) on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Graphics:

• DisplayObjects with overlapping strokes sometimes disappears when redrawn

• [FP-3621] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and
appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer
• [FP-2290] PerspectiveProjections have problems with click events
• 3D Facebook game renders incorrectly in Beta 1 and Beta 2
(http://apps.facebook.com/dealornodeallive/)
• 'Show Redraw Regions' draws on the entire swf even though only a part of it is changing.
(1935032)
• Images render blank when scaled to specific sizes see example. (2201051)

Networking:

• *[FP-4053] Flash player crashes after network cable is unplugged. (2570447)

• The Settings dialog doesn’t correctly allow Local Storage requests. (2485167)
• [FP-1050, FP-1358] Escalation - Active Directory is causing Local Shared Objects to fail when the
information is saved on a network location. (2411638)
• Safari Only: File Reference upload test always results in a cancelled event. (2467129)
• Time stamp doesn't get properly set in the request using URLRequestHeader. (2200991)
• FileReference.download does not return an error even it doesn't have enough space to save the
file to download. (2316411)
• [FP-1585] loaderInfo Event.COMPLETE not dispatched if wmode is "transparent" or "opaque".
(2345794)
• [FP-2746] Multi-domain inter-VM LocalConnection failure (2446591)

Audio/Video:

• *[FP-3923] Flash Player crashing with video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo on Transmeta
CPU-based device (2558230)
• *[FP-3912][Mac] Crash on visitprovence.com after music stops (2557133)
• *[FP-3822] Flash Player crashes when returning from the SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA
listener including the buffer writing and the call of SoundChannel.stop().(2551439)
• *Some videos do not playback through hardware correctly on CBS.com. (2575332)
• *Seeking on some Hulu videos produces artifacts on systems with ATI GPUs. (2543121)
• * [FP-4141] Playing or stopping progressive audio playback in one browser tab can stop a FMS
stream in another (2582132)
• *Some videos on abc.com do not load. (2551592)
• *Some YouTube videos display incorrect alignment of portions of a video frame (tearing) on the
Mac when in full screen. (2556963)
• *[FP-3199] On Mac OS 10.6, when viewing video on a secondary monitor, going to fullscreen
causes it to jump to the primary monitor. (2501177)
• *Flex 3 Video component doesn’t properly receive events from the Player. (2563564)
• *[FP-3762] Broadcom CrystalHD Video Decoder bcm70010/bcm70012 is not engaged for H.264
hardware decoding. (2577562)
• *[FP-4123] Video playback either freezes or screen becomes green on abc.com, audio seems to
be still playing. (2582949)
• *[FP-1844] Certain webcams cause Flash to crash. (2552925)
• [FP-3567] Firefox Crash/Hang when running music on Playlist.com
• [FP-3921] Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 crashes Internet Explorer 8 in 32bit mode on Playlist.com
• In Firefox, clicking quickly on the stop music / play music button before it has completed loading
the music, causes a crash (Bugzilla 542164)
• [FP-3675] Windows energy saving does not work after viewing video in full-screen mode
• Support for the Broadcom BCM70015 (“FLEA”) hardware decoder support is not yet enabled.
• NetStream.Buffer.Full event is not fired correctly. Site in question -
http://www.cracked.com/video_18108_the-battle-h-town.html. (2501240)
• On Broadcom graphics accelerators, NetStream.Step.Notify event doesn’t fire when seeking
backwards on video playback.
• Video loads slowly or crashes on Internet Explorer when using Nvidia graphics card.
• Systems with NVidia graphics processors crash on certain videos on dailymotion.com
• Toggling between SD and HD on youtube.com causes a crash on Broadcom Graphics
Accelerators.
• Audio Stream stays open when playback is paused not allowing computers to be place to sleep
• Clicking on/off HQ or HD button on some of the Youtube and CastTV.com trailer videos causes
intermittent crash.
• On certain graphics cards, green artifacts appear when seeking in video.
• [FP-1399] Videos on nbc.com do not play on Linux OSes.
• With hardware decoding, cbs.com pause/play video buttons and seeking function intermittently.
• On Systems with XP and ATI Graphics cards, hulu.com video can hang after a seek
• On systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator, seeking on youtube.com videos can result in
a crash.
• On the Mac PPC, Safari crashes when streaming a video from some web pages
• Audio sync issues when streaming FLV over RTMPE on systems with a Broadcom Graphics
Accelerator.
• Some videos have their first few frames dropped on systems with a Broadcom Graphics
Accelerator.
• Some videos crash intermittently on a Broadcom Graphcis Accelerator.
• [FP-3081] Some videos on http://www.cbc.ca/video/ never begin playing on Linux OSes
• Americanidol.com videos play only on mouse move in Firefox browser in Vista 64-bit OS
• Video freezes sometimes when using multi-bit rate streaming in conjunction with hardware video
decoding. (2484960)
• Scaling of videos (fullscreen) causes blockiness or pixilation. (2486489)
• Youtube video stalls after seek backwards. (2470348)
• Calling close after calling seek without calling play first won't actually close stream. (2201102)
• Attaching and detaching Audio while publishing with record option leads to loss of data. (2216926)
• Problem in playing only audio or only video after audio video h264 streaming in same subscriber.
(2217003)
• When AAC is published from FME, setting buffer from default or 0 to something else e.g. 1 causes
playback stop with buffer length growing. (2296673)
• Play video then stop, remove from the display list, the CPU usage is about 2.5 - 3.8% higher then
before playing the video. (2314914)
• Live mp3 playback loses audio after 20 min or so. (2341618)
• [FP-220] Video stops playing if one right clicks in the browser, even if its in a different tab.
(2384290)
• Screen dimming while playing video in fullscreen mode. (1935054)
 • Audio playback worsens on Mac while switching browser tabs with certain videos. (2275111)
• [FP-178] -Video.clear fails. Clears only 1 pixel when Video.smoothing = true. (2200576)
• [FP-1936] win32 microphone deadlocks on unplug active USB microphone. (2200836)

Text/Text Input:

• *Textfields uneditable when using Mac OS 10.5 with Chrome browser. (2586905)
• *On Japanese systems, some fonts are incorrectly mapped to device fonts. (2582146)
• *Inline graphics are improperly positioned in a TextLine if the parent movie clip is rotated or
skewed. (2557265)
• [FP-3742, FP-3186] Characters appearing twice when typing in a text input field
• Escaping and then unescaping 4 Japanese characters doesn't unescape the last character.
(2504228)
• In multiline input text field, 'End' key does not work correctly. It moves caret to left of last character.
• [FP-3562] In certain situations (https://www.oceaniacruises.com/ships/dining.aspx) only one text
line displayed in fields with multiple lines.
• [FP-777] Truncation occurs on fonts using advanced anti-aliasing in TextField instances with the
autoSize property set to true. (1932320)
• High memory usage when using a longer string in TextLine. (1779180)
• Text with tracking applied does not align to tab stops correctly. (1883771)
• Tracking should not visible after the last character of tcy block. (1894774)
• ElementFormat.trackingLeft and ElementFormat.trackingRight are incorrectly applied to
GraphicElement. (1906889)
• Justify all lines with "Track Right" and "Track Left" leave an empty space after and before each
line respectively. (1907579)
• Kinsoku Can't-Begin-Line character and Can't End-Line character. settings is ignored if a
character in front or after is tcy. (1916601)
• FTE TextLine.textWidth exceeds the specified width causing horizontal scrolling problem for
Gumbo TextArea. (1929381)
• [FP-836, FP-838] Player needs Unicode character input: Hindi, and Maltese characters with
accents do not show up properly. (2200969)
• [FP-40, FP-501] Cannot enter Chinese characters MS IME or even the @ symbol on a German
keyboard in input field on Firefox when wmode is set. (2216616)
• Arial Black is not being measured correctly when used with FTE and TCAL/TLE, etc (2216941)
• [SDK-18311] Setting scrollRect or mask on a DisplayObject breaks sub-pixel font rendering.
(2273704)
• Soft hyphenations don't appear in one-word text lines. (2363098)
• SWF built to use CharacterRange and new InteractiveObject methods for IME and MSAA support
won't run on Flash Player 10.0.22. (2399753)
• [FP-1877] Can't input Japanese characters in text field if wmode "opaque" or "transparent" is set
true except IE. (2405319)
• [FP-40] International text entry broken in Linux reports in Flash Player 9.0.48 or higher. (2201048)
• On Mac, a textInput event is fired after the users presses Command+Z. On other platforms, this
event is suppressed. (1905332)
• TextLine using Bauhaus 93 font causes runtime exception. (2266418)
• Double byte characters can't be input in Firefox Mac. (2366116)
• TextField variable performance issue. (1455343)
 • Key-in 80 2-byte Chinese characters with MS Pinyin IME 2003 , display as "?" on Windows XP
and Vista in terms. (1639284)
• Event flash.events.IMEEvent.IME_COMPOSITION does not fire in 'test movie’ in Flash
Professional when composing Chinese, even using MS Pinyin IME 3.0. (1646878)
• Arabic vocalization diacritics Tashkil are not rendered correctly. (1930910)
• TextInput is newly broken in IE8 when running flash content in any windowless mode. (1933447)
• Pressing ALT deletes selected text from a TextInput when wmod=transparent. (2200014)
• Ideographic Space AKA Full Size Double Byte Space is changed into "@" with IE7, Flash 10 and
WinXP. (2257161)
• Cursor and selection behavior is incorrect around control spaces. (2273650)

General:

• *General stability and performance improvements

• *Improvements to performance involving object creation.
• *Many issues involving video playback have been fixed in this release, and users may need to get
updated video drivers ATI, NVidia, Broadcom, or Intel.
• *Flash Player crashes on PPC when visiting netcombo.globo.com (2413326)
• *On Max OS 10.6, the Flash Player may crash with some content when refreshing Safari 4.
(2593045)
• *Mac crashes on file upload. (2551342)
• *Crash on Kongregate.com when game starts. (2513781)
• *Crash during JavaScript animation with Flash content on Windows Mozilla browser. (2444251)
[Bugzilla 487938]
• *Crash from http://kingofads.doritos.co.uk/video/1699695476.
• *registerClassAlias encountering null CodeContexts. (2536419)
• *[FP-3631] Mouse hide does not function when wmode = transparent on Chrome Browser.
(2530721)
• *On Mac OS 10.6, when going to fullscreen from Safari, the mouse cursor doesn’t disappear as
expected. (2559389)
• *Full screen rendering fails on some PowerPC configurations. (2575377)
• *[FP-3985] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and
appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer. (2562426)
• *[FP-4006] For the Plugin player on Windows and Mac, portions of www.burton.com do not
render. (2569188)
• *[FP-3897] Full screen mode on secondary monitor incorrectly references to primary monitor for
mouse interactions on the Mac OS. (2569371)
• *RegisterClassAlias does not work in child applications in a separate ApplicationDomain.
(2200730)
• *On Mac OS, there is considerable latency in closing tabs with instance-heavy pages. (2579652)
• *[FP-3732] JavascriptFlashGateway.swf does not forward messages from JavaScript to Flash if it
is not (2538746).
• [FP-383] ExternalInterface.objectID is not set
• Performance has decreased for the ByteArray and Vector objects. (2498076)
• Settings UI does not respond to clicks. Firefox Only / PPC. (2501976)
• [FP-3226] Flash objects have to be clicked once before interaction is possible using the mouse
• Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari 3 and Safari 4. (2472648)
• [FP-3354] Certain games at the Atari site can cause a crash
• [FP-3411] Performance of ByteArray and Vector classes dramatically lower than Flash Player 10.
Runtime error 1221 is thrown on every third loaded image
• Performance of describeType() has degraded.
• File Reference filtering does not work properly on Mac OS.
• [Bugzilla 539328] describeType(Interface) output changed in FP v10.1
• [Bugzilla 487938] On Windows, invoking a modal dialog during a JavaScript animation with SWF
content causes Firefox to crash
• [FP-792] Class registered with registerClassAlias is accessible through different application
domain.
• [FP-3238] FileReference.download defaultFileName is broken in OS X.
• Rollover events don’t work properly in Mac OS X and Firefox in certain circumstances
• AMF serialization doesn't work correctly with multiple ApplicationDomains
• jibjab.com videos control toolbar does not respond properly to the mouse moves in IE browser
• On Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, In the Google Chrome or Opera browsers, right-clicking to brings up
the context menu at the bottom left of the desktop.
• [Bugzilla 534857] Flash Player Beta 10.1 disables Crash-reporter (Breakpad) in Firefox on
Windows
• ActionScript object creation in 10.1 is more than 50% slower than it was in 10.0
• [FP-3526] On the Mac OS with Firefox, Flash Player playback pauses when bookmarks opened
• [FP-3530] Safari crashes or quit suddenly on the Mac when switching to next scenario during play
of http://www.scarygirl.com/world.php
• [FP-3568] Some games fail to load (http://www.greatdaygames.com/games/alus-revenge.aspx) in
Internet Explorer.
• [FP-2118] FileReference.upload does not support files 0-bytes in size. (2422598)
• Cannot do paste with keyboard shortcut (CMD+v) in Flash Player applications on Safari/Mac.
(2472939)
• Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari3 and 4. (2472648)
• Flash Player now offers scroll-wheel support in browsers that support Cocoa events, such as
Apple's Safari 4 browser.
• flash.trace.Trace doesn't return packages for methods in the classes which are internal. (2200893)
• rollOut not received when a hovered descendant is removed from the display list. (2344043)
• [FP-2563] Saving a SharedObject larger than 10MB always returns "SharedObject.Flush.Failed"
from Local Storage increase dialog. (2449156)
• General webcam/microphone functionality not working. (2201070)
• [FP-922] mouseX, mouseY value changes on external click in Mac plug-in. (2200963)
• [FP-2009] CPU Utilization in an idle app is more than expected on Mac. (2294236)
• Objects with negative origins fall out of the tab order. (2200980)
• [FP-1034, FP-809] Flash Player can not save over files initially saved with a browser IE 7 on a
clean Vista Home machine or Ultimate Vista with UAC enabled. (2217092)
• Stage-placed SimpleButton references not defined in time for frame scripts (2275212)
• [FP-1633] Full screen message is not localized in Czech.(2289525)
• [FP-2630] Capabilities.os doesn't return specific Windows 7 string, but just a generic "Windows"
string instead. (2328444)
• [FP-2428] Buttons are null when navigating from frame to frame if a button contains a MovieClip.
(2389049)
• Pressing a key causes a Sprite to be pinned in memory. (2302574)
• Page Down and Page Up keys do not trigger key events when testing with Safari. (2309814)
• [FP-702] PrintJob page size incorrectly returns values that include non printable margins.
(2201057)
 • [FP-1025] Player 10 detection failure after reboot, Vista. (1938166)

Browser

• [FP-3765] Full screen mode doesn't work in Chrome

• Firefox crashes when visiting Blackberry site while spoofing as IE (Bugzilla 476580)
• In Chrome, Flash Player crash @ memcpy (29556)

Known Issues

This is a prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1, so some features are incomplete and you may see
stability issues, but please do file bugs as you feel appropriate. Your participation and feedback in the
prerelease program are tremendously important to the quality and success of Flash Player.

Bugs marked with a “*” are new for the Release Candidate.

GPU compositing (desktop platforms only):

• Hardware compositing (wmode=gpu) has been disabled on desktop platforms only. Hardware
compositing in Flash Player 10 improves performance in select cases, but it can decrease
performance in others. In addition, driver support varies widely on desktops. Given these
complications, Flash Player 10.1 will ignore the wmode=gpu embed parameter and composite
graphics in software.

H.264 video hardware decoding:

• NVIDIA ION (MCP79) and GeForce 8400GS (G98) GPUs:

Video clips with unusual horizontal resolutions may not be GPU-accelerated on these particular
video cards. On these cards, playing videos with such resolutions will force playback via software
decoding. The most likely place you will encounter this problem is when you first play YouTube
videos which have an “HD” button. Sometimes these video start with a unsupported width of 854.
The workaround is to Click on the “HD” button after that to toggle between supported HD and SD
widths. If you want to start with a supported HD width, append “&fmt=22” or "&fmt=37" to the end
of the YouTube video clip URL. This will play the video in HD mode (with a width of 1280 pixels or
1920 pixels), which is supported by these cards. For some YouTube videos which have an “HQ”
button, the HD mode may be of unsupported width. In this case, one can append “&fmt=22” to the
URL to get the SD mode video scaled to a bigger size. This known issue will be fixed with an
updated NVIDIA driver.
• In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS.
Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and
Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs. We will continue to evaluate adding the
feature to Linux and Mac OS in future releases.

Performance:

• Array.join operations are slower than in previous versions. (2475169)

Networking:

• Concurrent connections to the same local connection object between different swfs behaves
differently than in previous versions. (2470109)
Other:

• If a socket you are using times out, Flash Player may crash when attempting to use it again. To
work around this, delete any Socket after a connection attempt times out.
• Uninstall - when executed from Add/Remove Programs and ~\Macromed\Flash directory, leaves
FlashUtil in ~\Macromed\Flash directory. User can safely manually delete the file.

Reporting Issues

Please report bugs according to the instructions given in this prerelease program.

As noted above, Flash-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.