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Flash Player 10.1

This is a developer prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. It is being made available for developers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues. Consumers can try the beta release of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs and x86-based netbooks. The Flash Player 10.1 prerelease is available in all supported languages; however, the prerelease installers are only in English and we can only accept feedback in English at this time. Release versions of Flash Player are available from the Flash Player Download Center on Adobe.com.

Learn more about Flash Player 10.1

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Flash Player 10.1 Prerelease

The following downloads will install Flash Player 10.1 prerelease for Windows, Intel-based Macintosh and Linux desktop operating systems. See the Release Notes for more information.

Important: All users should uninstall any currently installed Flash Player before installing the latest prerelease.

Additional Downloads

Memory Monitoring Component

This component contains an ActionScript 3.0 class file that reports the total amount of memory used by the application it is running in.  You can use the class in Adobe Flash Professional or with Adobe Flex by importing the class, creating an instance and adding it to the display list.  For users of Flash Professional, a sample FLA is included with the code needed to display the memory monitor. If you would like your content to be playable on mobile devices once Flash Player 10.1 is released for mobile platforms, then you should test the RAM usage of your content to determine whether it is appropriate for low-memory environments. Whereas the average desktop machine today has over 2 GBs of total RAM, most smartphones have only 256 MB or less. And, much of this RAM is often used by the OS, browser, and other priority applications. This can leave a fairly limited amount for SWF content. Because of this, we recommend that SWF content that is targeted to mobile devices should require no more than 50 MB of RAM to run appropriately.

Player Global SWC

Create content using the new APIs available in Flash Player 10.1 using Adobe Flash Builder 4 or Adobe Flex Builder 3. Installation instructions are included within the ZIP file.