Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, devices, and mobile phones.

Adobe Labs features prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software. The beta is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early fedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content.

Here are some key features of "Adobe Flash Player":

· ActionScript 3.0
· New virtual machine
· New H.264/HE-AAC options
· Flash Player Cache
· Increased performance
· Enhanced security
· Display API
· File upload/download
· Enhanced expressiveness
· External API
· Asynchronous communication model
· Consistent experiences
· Express Install
· Input Method Editor (IME) support
· Lightweight footprint
· Accessibility support

Requirements:

· Safari 4.0+ or Mozilla Firefox 3.0+ or Google Chrome3+ or Opera 9.5+ or AOL Desktop for Mac 1.0+
· Intel Core Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor
· 256MB of RAM
· 128MB of graphics memory

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Infinite scrolling and new mouse events to enable first-person shooter experiences. Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 1/1/2008*** Throttling event**** - This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent.