Digital Home Thoughts: New Adobe Flash Player Promises Improvements

"Last month I called Adobe's Flash "the new Vista," and wondered out loud about Adobe's commitment to fixing its reliability and security problems. Now that Flash Player 10.1 has been officially released, I have some initial, very preliminary data to help answer the reliability question, as well as some simple tests to see whether performance is any better with this new version. On reliability, the 10.1 upgrade gets a big thumbs up. I have yet to see a crash or slowdown related to it...."

Ed Bott, at ZDNet.com, has not been happy with Adobe's Flash Player, citing performance, reliability, and security issues with the common browser add-on. However, he finds that the latest release, version 10.1, appears to have addressed the performance and reliability issues - at least on Windows based systems. Read his article for details on the data upon which he bases his ("preliminary") conclusion. You can also visit Adobe's site for information on the new features version 10.1 introduces, or to simply download this release. I have not had significant problems with Flash of late (running Ver 10.0.45.2, mainly under Firefox), but increased performance and reliability make an update to 10.1 seem attractive. What has your past experience been using Flash? Have you tried the new release? And, if so, does it indeed work better?