The Mac version is now only 1/2 has fast as the Windows version, while still using 100% of all the CPU cycles. Maybe Adobe should use Microsoft's tag "Works Best on Windows".

3x faster is still slower than Flash on Windows.Apple should keep their promises to Adobe, and Adobe should take Apple more seriously. Adobe apps are starting to work better on Windows. Even fonts are working better on Windows, and OSX sucks when it comes to font management.

Is anyone else out there ready to chuck flash out entirely? Aside from its fanboys in the web-design industry, flash doesn't do the rest of us much good- being more widely used as a animated ad platform than for video content. I wish we could agree on a industry standard instead of a proprietary platform when it comes to video plug-ins.

Were it not for a few sites that I need to use on a semi-daily basis, i'd disable it entirely in Safari. It would be nice if there was a block flash button or key-command that we could utilize in safari, then one could just ignore the annoyances and save the proc power when need be.

I do believe that flash guys optimised some stuff in their player. Honestly, I do. But I use my own method of testing flash: ageofconan.com homepage. On my powerbook 1.67 the starting animation of that site is at about 1 frame per 2 seconds. Updated flash player didn't do any good there. In Windows XP the site runs about 20 times faster, and that's on very very outdated box.

One advise to Adobe: rewrite Mac version from scratch.

...which typically timeout my patience while loading driving me away from rather than attracting me to commercial sites...

These seeming webmaster wet dreams seem increasingly focussed on 'technology' at the expense of clear communication & efficacious provision of useful information...

Did I mention I hate flash sites...?

Is anyone else out there ready to chuck flash out entirely?

Apple is taking care of that for us, and I'm very happy about it.

Adobe touting how 'well' the new Flash is doing is just a last ditch effort to avoid falling into insignificance - the writing's on the wall, thanks to iPhone, that Apple won't be supporting Flash. The litmus test will be the day the next version of OS X / Safari will ship without Flash pre-installed. This may not be Snow Leopard, but speculatively the version following it. The plans to do so have already been decided upon, I'm sure.

This is no different than Apple at one point stopping to include Stuffit Expander in their OS X distribution - the lesson is the same: get bloated, and have user hostile management, and Apple will drop you.

This has happened for Stuffit, it is happening very actively to Microsoft's MacBU Entourage 2008 (to be followed by the rest of Office), and will happen to Flash as well.

AJAX is here and it's VERY fast. Soon it will leave its tread marks all over Flash.

I'm having a problem where all flash video is now rendered in green and black blocks. Beta 1 and Flash 9 did not have this problem. Anybody else seeing this?

Same here, went back to 9. Installer for the latest 9 for Power PC is also buggy. It thinks I have an Intel Mac.

not enough!

The new beta has actually fixed some interface problems with youtube videos for me. And yes, it's faster than version 9 but way slower than any windows flash. Dunno what the future is for this adobe product but they better fix all these performance issues unless they want to loose huge chunk of market entirely.