The Flash Platform has a long history of delivering Web innovation, and core to the Platform is Adobe Flash Player, our browser-based application runtime. Today, Flash Player is installed on nearly all Internet-connected desktops worldwide, and delivers rich content and interactive Web applications to a rapidly growing number of smartphones, tablets and netbooks. We continue to advance Flash Player through both my team's work and through the contributions of the Open Screen Project, which includes almost 70 industry partners.
Google is a key participant in the Open Screen Project and shares our commitment to driving innovation on the Web. With this common goal in mind, Adobe and Google are collaborating to take the Flash Player experience to the next level by supporting a deeper integration with Google's Chrome browser. Today, Google is releasing the initial integration of Flash Player with Chrome in their developer channel, behind a command line flag. Moving forward, Google will be including Flash Player in Chrome so users will always have the most current release and a safer and more seamless experience. To learn more about this integration you can visit the Chromium Blog.
Additionally, we are also working with Google, Mozilla, and the broader community on a new API that can provide a better way for all Web browsers and plug-ins to interact with each other. While the current NPAPI has served the industry well, it lacks the flexibility and power to support the pace of innovation we see ahead. We expect that the new API specification will offer some distinct benefits over the current technology available.
- The API will be operating system and browser-neutral, minimizing the chance of inconsistent behavior across platforms.
- The new API is being designed with the flexibility to allow plug-ins to more tightly integrate with host browsers.
- The new plug-in API will provide performance benefits since the host browser will be able to directly share more information about its current state.
- The tighter integration provided by the API can allow for a more secure browsing experience as it will be easier to unify security models and collaborate on security techniques, such as sandboxing.
We welcome and encourage the participation in the definition and development of this new API. To read more about this project, visit this page.
Our hope is that the robust integration between Chrome and Flash Player will serve as a showcase for more consistent, seamless, and efficient Web browsing experiences. We feel that this significant effort by both Google and Adobe will directly improve the speed of innovation and move the Web forward, benefiting the entire community of developers and end-users.
Paul Betlem
Sr. Director, Flash Player Engineering
Deeper Flash integration? That's hella tite! Literally.
This is great news, but will there also be a command line flag to enable an internal debugger plugin?
So we will be able to use Web-browser based Flash on our Google Android smartphones?
That's one small step... congratulations guys, for both OSP and thing great news!
Paul, this is fantastic news. What can we Flash advocates do to help make sure that NPAPI supports passing keyboard shortcuts to the player? The inability to support CTRL+C, CTRL+V etc in a reliable, cross-browser fashion that's not a giant hack is one of the main flaws of Flash as a RIA platform. We've waited long enough, let's make it happen! :)
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with this. We'll mobilize. :)
Peldi
Hopefully this means less memory usage when using intensive flash applications over longer periods of time (I'm talking in GBytes here) and better browser integration.
NPAPI needed a substitute for years now. Always wondered when Google will change this for Chrome, not if :-)
Wow, this is excellent news. A real commitment between Adobe and Google to push integration proves that two large companies with some levels of overlapping in some areas can work together to bring the best both have to offer to developers. Kudos to Adobe and Google for taking this initiative.
I look forward to what is coming.
+LA
@ Peldi: This is exactly the type of improvement we expect to support. We'll share progress updates periodically so you can participate in the process.
@Znuff: This effort isn't explicitly focused on reducing memory use, but the upcoming version of Flash Player 10.1 does introduce numerous optimizations for CPU usage, power management, and memory use. Please take a look at the Beta we have posted and share feedback with us if your issues haven't been addressed.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
Flash Player 10.1 for Android will arrive in the first half of this year. Details are posted here:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201002/021510FlashPlayerMWC.html
@Scott: We're still working out the details for enabling the debugging functionality via Chrome.
Excellent news!
I hope this will open up typical browser features to plug-ins like Flash (without reverting to JS hacks) like bookmarking, history/deep linking, read access to user style-sheet, integrated search facility, listening to browser menu/button events in the plugin.
Will it?
Hopefully the tracking of flash events and "pages" will be much much easier too?
Indexing? Bookmarks?
I have been using the old hacks and js index.htm?page=xx to link in for way too long.
would love a solution, especially for magazines and the like such as www.lookbookhd.com and madmenmag.com etc.
Will this allow middle clicking links to open in new tab?
Wow, that is what I'm talking about! Great news!
These are fantastic news!!
If Flash plug-in will be integrated into Chrome, the hardware acceleration will be enabled and native? (ex: i have a geforce 7950 and sometimes is very slow in flash)
And about the Control-c, Control-v will be supported into flash chat?
I want to report that into flash plugin for Chrome the characters of keyboard Italian aren't fully supported.. The Italian keys (è,à, etc) are rearranged strangely.. I can't find the "?" pressing the correspondent key and the others all wrong or mapped onto keyboard-us..
Please fix it.. pls..
Luke
The Flash Player added initial support for hardware acceleration about 2 years ago. It is essential that the hardware acceleration support in the Flash Player integrates well with each browser's drawing model, both on desktop systems and mobile devices. This work will happen independent of this effort.
I aknowledge the need to support ctrl-c,v and understand its importance.
For the issue with the Italian keyboard, could I ask that you file a bug at
https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/ so we can investigate?
I Love flash and good to see finally some big news about Flash this is 100% a big step for adobe evolution.
And make more work to Flash and add more powerful, faster and more advanced features then the success will be unavoidable.
Well done, this had to be done, keep up the good Job, uh, work ! ;)
Since Flash will now be integrated into the browser it would be a good idea allow the HTML 5 audio and video tags to playback flash audio and video content
In noting your current conflict between Apple and Adobe regarding Flash and having first hand experience in the frequent crashes when using Flash within Safari, FireFox, Opera and the beta of Chrome... what are you doing to make the version of Flash for the Macintosh stable? It's been years of problems and each new version of Flash for the Macintosh brings new hope however never seems to address the real problems. You seem to be more interested in pushing new features rather than fixing the ones you already have.
I've lived with the 'poor bastard child of the family' syndrome for years now on the Macintosh (the same syndrome from your friends at Microsoft Office as well). You can't seriously blame Apple for your code being unstable so why is it that instead of posturing about how '99%' of the browsers out there run Flash, you work on making it an equal experience for all platforms? If you did, you'd have better support from the Apple users on pushing Apple toward better supporting it. I know Apple hasn't opened up the ability to use hardware acceleration but perhaps if you code worked more reliably, they'd be more interesting in working with you.
A better step, if Adobe is sincerely interested in making sure the technology is pervasive, is to turn Flash over to the Open Source world and let developers around the world enhance the platform.
-Art
Someone is finally responding to the 'Aww Snap' messages I get in chrome when opening multiple flash pages. I have to reload every page across tabs, when that happens, it is so annoying -and that's when I'm lucky. Other times I have to save each page one by one and then reload the entire browser.
Thank you
Oh and I am a PC :)
Great news, this is next big step for the flash future
What is the plan for Linux x64 here? Will Chrome include the alpha version of your flashplayer or will it include the 32 bit version of flashplayer and emulate 64 bit support?
Flash player 10.1 Beta3 still crash when running some of these heavy facebook flash-based apps by Playfish and Zynga. I do notice it do crash less now (but not 100% crash free yet and still a major ram memory eater) but I believe there is still room for reducing app memory leakage and eating up lots of ram over short period of run-time. If the following highly popular flash-based social game apps (see links below) can run without any crash or slowdown/freeze when leaving it running for some time (e.g. it happens after visiting about 100-200 neigbours in-game or more significant to high level players), it will make flash player a much stable plug-in.
The links are for adobe flash dev staff to test and ensure it can eventually reach a state of crash-free and stable performance across browsers and platforms. I'm not a staff of Playfish or Zynga but a facebook flash app game player. Below links are for adobe/chrome dev staff to test for stability and improvement to slowdown/freeze/crash/memory leak (high level players experience this more occurance as we have many neighbours and objects placed in-game) or for flash dev team to contact playfish or zynga top facebook flash game developers to improve flash-based social game stability and performance and overcome any limitation/bug.
I'm currently using Chrome latest 5.0.342.8 beta and 10.1.51.95 flash player in a MS Windows7 environment with intel low-voltage dual-core ULV SU2300 processor on my laptop, intel 4 series express chipset (integrated GMA4500MHD) and a few GB ram at the time of writing this. Commentary is based on flash plug-in 10.1b3 experience.
Here's a few very popular top ranked facebook flash app that has crashed on me quite often or experience a slowdown/freeze daily before or recently when running individual app or multiple app, (no doubt, running a few of these flash app concurrently in a few multiple tabs will speed up the crash process or degrade faster):
Farm Ville
http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/index.php
Pet Society
http://apps.facebook.com/petsociety/
Restaurant City
http://apps.facebook.com/restaurantcity/
Country Story
http://apps.facebook.com/countrystory/
Gangster City
http://apps.facebook.com/gangstercity/
(there are other playfish/zynga apps too but just to list a few of them here that are affected for adobe to do testing, Adobe flash dev team might wanna go through all top 10-20 ranking facebook flash-based app to ensure they are crash-proof and stable across platforms and browsers)
Last but not least,
Running YouTube Videos also cause similar problem.
Once in the past, I download a 3rd party program to clean up flash cache and release much memory back to the system while flash apps are running in hope to prevent/reduce crash but it only delay crash but won't stop flash from crashing at all (even if the ram don't hit over 90% usage after using 3rd party program to release it back). Clear browser cache or CCleaner also do not prevent crash from happening or prevent slowdown/freeze/hang entirely on my chrome browser. I have to force Chrome browser to exit sometimes (the browser top-right close button do not work too) when the flash plugin won't stop running and responding(even after I press stop when being told by chrome that flash is not responding).
Does the integration of Flash in Chrome mean that we always get the latest beta release version from Adobe automatically in future and being more memory efficient in future development?
I'm have updated and now using Flash player 10.1 RC but Facebook Flash-based games app such as Farmville (FV) http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/index.php still crash in Chrome (latest beta channel/version). Usually it will get slower and then blackout and crash. It happens to Playfish and Zynga games (as well as YouTube videos) which are the most popular facebook flash-based games and video site to date and yet it still crash in the latest Flash 10.1RC release. I'm running laptop in Windows7 with few gb ram, low-voltage/dual-core processor with Intel 4 series express chipset GMA4500MHD. No wonder Apple say Flash is problematic... so please if Adobe wanna prove Apple wrong, at least make it crash-free and stop eating up memory/ram before making official release of 10.1 to all kind of platforms and environment and the public. Thank you.
Hi,
Thank you for the detailed description of the issues you're having. We will investigate the problem you're seeing, though I would encourage you to file a bug using the URL below so we can track the progress of the investigation.
https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/
--- Paul
Would be nice If they finally make the mousewheel work on mac`s without using javascript .....
So we will be able to use Web-browser based Flash on our Google Android smartphones?
Yes. The details can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201002/021510FlashPlayerMWC.html
We have some code in our npapi plugin to check whether flash is loaded. It does so by attempting to load flash's NSBundle. With this change flash's bundle identifier has changed from
com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin
to
com.macromedia.FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
I can understand a one-time change to accommodate the new sandboxing, but putting the version number in the identifier? Will it be changing with every flash runtime release?
I use Google Chrome! I have a Windows 7 in 64 bit. I do not want to install a 32bit browser. WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO SMELL THE COFFEE AND ADD A 64 BIT VERSION????
Mad, It's good to see support for Android. Now theres another reason to say its better than the iPhone OS.
because my facebook had not found games like farmville, anyway may server for facebook is bloaked.
I am facing problem to play facebook games by using older version of adobe flash player, so, decided to download latest version, I was told to uninstall the older version, restart computer and install latest Flash player, but after tried for days, I still cant get to have Flash Player in place although there is message prompting me installation successful, but, I cant find this program any way of my laptop which is run by Window Vista, any kind hearted people can help??? Urgent...
Thanks in advance
Hi,
We'll contact you directly to investigate your issue.
--- Paul
Thats Nice info!
Over one month ago that I can not enter http://apps.facebook.com/restaurantcity/, I downloaded adobe flash repeatedly, change my internet explorer by chome, but I can not solve the problem, please help in this.
thank you very much.
Lu
Forget the accolades.
Flash player is not working in Chrome and neither is Youtube.
I am not a techy. What is wrong?
For Windows, you can get help here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83713.html
For Mac, you can get help here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/2dda3d81.html
--- Paul
I uninstalled and reinstalled. You Tube and other Flash sites worked for a while. Then all of a sudden I started to get the lock-ups again.
I am not a techy. Help.
Flash stopped working this evening after working all day using Chrome.
After many tries and variations.
OK, it's working again.
I ran the flash uninstall program.
Then downloaded the Flash installer.
Closed Chrome and ran Flash installer.
hey.is.there.any.flash.player.for.window.mobile
My computer runs Vista 64 bit; I have to run internet explorer 8 in 32 bit instead of 64 bit to use flash. This problem must affect a major portion of computer users and is slowing progress.
When is this problem going to get fixed?
Oops, meant to say by computer runs Windows 7 64 bit (not Vista 64 bit).
Is there an answer as to when Adobe Flash will release a Flash version which will work with internet explorer 8 in 64 bit? Thanks
Ok so what your saying is, I have bought a 64 bit windows 7 computer, 6 gigs of ram and you say I have to go backwards with my browsers to 34 bit, and 34 bit does not recognize all my ram so my computer is going to go so much slower because Im going backwards? I can not watch stuff on hulu, says I need to upgrade flash, I try and upgrade and firefox wont even open, it just crashes. so I had to uninstall, I also am a huge player of the games on facebook. Is there any time frame when you might have a flash that will work with 64 bit? here are my specs on my computer:
well I cant seem to find that info, and no web sites working at the moment for checking for me so Im gonna have to restart. hopefully Ill be back with my system I know it has a quad processor, 6 gigs ram, windows 7 64 bit and its a dell but I cant find the info to be all techy , I just got the computer 5 days ago.
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) Dell Inc. Inspiron 570 00
System Service Tag: 4SGDQL1 (support for this PC)
Chassis Serial Number: 4SGDQL1
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon II X4 630
No memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: Dell Inc. 04GJJT A00
Serial Number: ..CN7016301S010N.
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A01 01/25/2010
Drives Memory Modules c,d
1983.93 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1844.83 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653G ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
WD Virtual CD 1110 USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
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Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic- SM/xD Picture USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
ST31000528AS [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9VP61RX7, rev CC45, SMART Status: Healthy
WD My Book 1110 USB Device [Hard drive] (999.49 GB) -- drive 5, s/n WCAU4D381351
WD SES Device USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 6, s/n WCAU4D381351 5888 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 984.43 GB 953.58 GB free
j: (NTFS on drive 5) 999.50 GB 891.24 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
debbie66 5/22/2010 4:02:32 PM (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator 4/9/2010 10:48:13 AM (admin)
Guest never
HomeGroupUser$ never
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Microsoft Shared Fax Driver on SHRFAX:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort:
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Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller ATI Radeon HD 4200 [Display adapter]
DELL ST2310 [Monitor] (23.1"vis, s/n P480R9BJ23GL, November 2009)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (2x)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (4x) ATI High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio
Virus Protection [Back to Top] new Group Policies
McAfee VirusScan Version 99.9.99
Realtime File Scanning On
None discovered
Communications Other Devices
Conexant D850 PCI V.92 Modem
Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
primary Auto IP Address: deleted for privacy / 24
Gateway: deleted for privacy
Dhcp Server: deleted for privacy
Physical Address: deleted for privacy
Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Networking Dns Server: deleted for privacy
HID-compliant consumer control device (2x)
HID-compliant device
USB Input Device (2x)
HID Keyboard Device
HID-compliant mouse
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Root Hub (6x)
Generic volume shadow copy
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there is all the techy stuff LOL