Flash 9 player and Flash 9 public alpha is out

[angelneo]

For those who are into the Flash scene, just to let you guys know that Flash 9 player is out of beta and available for all to download. Flex 2.0 is out as well.

Furthermore, Flash 9 professional public alpha is available for download (not sure if this is new).

 

[mkrishnan]

Couple of notes... I just downloaded and am about to install, but...

1) Flash Player Intel binary is still a beta of V. 8

2) Some moderators on MySpace claim that Flash 9 significantly improves prevention of flash-based pop-ups and -unders. I am very curious to see about that.

 

[Lixivial]

Couple of notes... I just downloaded and am about to install, but...

1) Flash Player Intel binary is still a beta of V. 8

Really? My version was reported as being the latest and greatest when I was running version 8. I did, however, jump to the beta of 9 amid Safari stability concerns.

So far, I've found the beta to be significantly more stable on my MacBook. Under a fairly light usage, version 8 was crashing Safari left and right, and so far I've yet to receive a crash when viewing flash or an application hang upon starting Safari.

 

[mkrishnan]

Really? My version was reported as being the latest and greatest when I was running version 8. I did, however, jump to the beta of 9 amid Safari stability concerns.

So far, I've found the beta to be significantly more stable on my MacBook. Under a fairly light usage, version 8 was crashing Safari left and right, and so far I've yet to receive a crash when viewing flash or an application hang upon starting Safari.

My understanding is that you are running the PPC version of Flash under Rosetta. In which case, if you'rehaving good experiences, it's probably worth it to jump from Beta 9 to the final release of 9?

This is from Adobe's site:

A preview release of Flash Player 8 for Intel-based Macintosh computers is available from this TechNote. This preview release runs natively on Intel-based Macs, but it has not been extensively tested and customers may run into compatibility, performance, and other issues.

 

[Lixivial]

Indeed, mkrishnan, you were right about version 8 being a beta release. I was running the Flash 8 for Intel Mac preview release, and assumed it was a final release.

If the installed version is 8.0.17.0, or 8.0.27.0, you have the Flash Player 8 preview release installed. Download and install the public beta version of Flash Player 9 available here.

If the installed version is 8.0.22.0, or 8.0.24.0, and you are not running Safari in Rosetta mode, you have the PowerPC version of Flash Player 8 installed. This version can only be run in Rosetta mode. You can follow the steps below to run Flash Player 8 in Rosetta, or downwnload [sic] and install the public beta version of Flash Player 9 available here.

I was running 8.0.27.0

Either way, I jumped ship to v9 yesterday from the problematic v8 (that's what brought about the whole numbering thing) and haven't had a problem. The thing is that I downloaded what was available for Intel Macs at the time -- version 8 -- and I guess I must have been confused.

Anyroad, the beta of version 9 is much more stable than the preview release of 8. That's all I got to say.