FP 10.1 Finally delivers speed improvements for OS X
I thought of writing a post on how the Flash Player absolutely sucks on OS X. Jeah, people have been writing a number of related posts, but I didn’t think anyone actually grasped the severity of the issue. Flash 10.0 in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard (64 bit, FP running in it’s own process) actually becomes what I would say unusable. Even if you don’t do much processing, frame-rates plummet by at least a factor of four compared to a Window XP setup with the same hardware. And sure, while Firefox on OS X has run Flash sort of okeyish, it has never been able to compare against a Windows counterpart.
That is, up to now.
Tinic had a great post on changes they’ve made to how they composite Flash Player 10.1 renderings in the browser. The changes truly have made a big difference. Compared to 10.0, 10.1 screams on Safari, and is also a bit faster on Firefox.
Follow me on Twitter!
Other services
