Flash Player Adobe Flash Player 9 Release Notes. This document is for users developing content for Adobe Flash Player 9 and addresses issues which are not discussed in the Flex 2 documentation or release notes. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available. Opens to a new page. Adobe Flash Player version. Ensure that you have the latest version of Flash Player installed by clicking here to check the version. The current version of Flash Player 9 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems is 9. The current version of Flash Player 9 for Solaris operating systems is 9. Updated versions of the content debugger players are posted on the Flash Player Support Center Downloads page. Features in Adobe Flash Player 9, Version 9. Flash Player 9 builds on the advances in Flash Player 8 by focusing on three main areas creating a more robust programming model, achieving standards compliance, and delivering ground breaking performance. This release of Flash Player includes Action. Script 3. 0, a significant update to the scripting language of the runtime that provides a familiar syntax and compelling new language features. Action. Script. 3. New Flash Player APIs, such as those for the display list, enable greater creative control over content and applications. The features available in Flash Player 9 are described in the Flex Builder 2 help. Action. Script 3. Action. Script Technology Center. Features that developers should be aware of include Action. Script 3. 0. Action. Script is the powerful object oriented programming language of the Flash Player runtime environment. Action. Script 3. Action. Script 3. ECMAScript Edition 3 ECMA 2. ECMAScript Edition 4 ES4 draft language specification. For a complete listing of APIs, see the Flex 2. MXML and Action. Script Language Reference. Some highlights of the Action. Script 3. 0 language include ECMAScript for XML E4. XE4. X enables easy manipulation of XML documents using a familiar syntax. Utilize new E4. X classes XML, XMLList, QName, and Namespace to develop code to traverse, filter, and manipulate XML data more quickly and easily than was possible with previous programming techniques. Regular Expressions. Action. Script 3. ECMAScript Edition 3 language specification ECMA 2. Native support for regular expressions saves coding time for string search and manipulation procedures. DOM Events APIs. Based on the industry standard Document Object Model DOM Level 3 Events Model, Action. Script 3. 0 introduces better control over event handling through standardized APIs. Display List APIs. Directly create, manipulate, and control objects on the Flash Player display list for complex application creation and control. New classes include Sprite, a lightweight building block, and Shape, for raw vector shapes. Depth management is automatic and handled by Flash Player 9, with new methods for specifying and managing the z order of objects. New Sound APIs. The new sound APIs provide greater control over imported and embedded sounds for example, the new Sound. Mixer. compute. Spectrum method provides the ability to get information about sounds currently playing in Flash Player. Binary Data and Sockets. Enables interoperability with existing custom protocols, and increases data transfer performance with a more compact representation of data versus XML. Runtime Exceptions Error handling. Action. Script 3. Performance Faster Action. Script Performance. Flash Player 9 delivers up to 1. Action. Script 3. Reduced Memory Footprint. Action. Script 3. Action. Script 2. Fixes in Flash Player 9. Bitmap. Data and Video objects cannot be printed in vector mode. Firefox browser will crash using the External API if Java. Script calls an Action. Script function in the on. Unload handler, followed by the Action. Script function then calling another Action. Script function. This issue has been reported to Mozilla as Bugzilla Bug 3. Internet Explorer incorrectly directs some URL requests HTTP post of form data that return SWF files with no HTML wrapper to point to an incorrect location. Adobe Flash Player 9 Activex Installer Service' title='Adobe Flash Player 9 Activex Installer Service' />Download Adobe Flash Player 22 Offline Installer,Download the latest Flash Player Offline Installer Standalone for xp windows 7, 8, 10, vista, 32 bit, 64 bit. Update. 98FESP2, 98FESP2L 98SP2FR New 98 FE SP2 Full Lite English. All others same Unofficial Windows 98 Service Pack 2 SP2 2. Release. As a result, Flash Player will prevent the content from loading debugger players will display an error message, and Web players will fail silently. The issue has been fixed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. Firefox does not notify the Flash Player when the user creates and switches to a new tab, and Flash content continues to render on screen. Mozilla has been notified of this issue in Bugzilla Bug 2. Fixes and improvements in Flash Player 9. Support for Intel based Macs. Flash Player 9. 0. Intel based Macintosh computers includes all of the features from Flash Player 9. This release includes only bug fixes and optimizations related to the Intel based Macintosh platform. Flash Player 9. 0. Universal Binary installer. Users of Power. PC based Macs may continue to use the installer for Flash Player 9. Fixed in this version Flash Player sound output does not work for OSX Audio MIDI sample rate settings higher than 4. Khz. Some third party applications and MIDI breakout boxes will change the systemwide Audio settings on launch and fail to return settings to default on close. To workaround this issue, go to Applications Utilities Audio MIDI Setup. Select Sound Output and change the properties for the Built in Output to a setting less than or equal to 4. Khz. See this Tech. Note for more information. Fixes and improvements in Flash Player 9. Flash Player 9 now supports the Windows Vista operating system. Flash Player 9 now supports full screen mode in the web players, enabling greater immersive experiences for Flash, Flex and Flash video content. For more information about how to use this feature, see Exploring full screen mode in Flash Player 9. Addition of ADDEDTOSTAGE and REMOVEDFROMSTAGE events to allow a Display. Object to monitor and know when it can or cannot access its stage property. The ADDEDTOSTAGE event is dispatched to a Display. Object when it or the tree in which it is contained is added to the stage. The REMOVEDFROMSTAGE event is dispatched to a Display. Object when it or the tree in which it is contained is removed from the stage. Adobe Flash Player 9. Security Bulletin APSB0. Fixed in this version When opening 2 window instances of IE 7 with 2 tabs each, crash will occur with binary socket connection. Clicking playpause button in a Google video opens another IE window and new window crashes. Player crashes when parent Movie. Clip destroyed using a on. Set. Focus event handler. Safari dropping frames and playing video poorly in full screen mode PPC Mactel. Dynamic Text. Field prints as a solid box when using embedded fonts and set for anti alias for readability. Setting selectablefalse on a Text. Field doesnt prevent keyboard selection. Reg. Exp. index property isnt double byte aware. Artifacts when initially playing video stream freeze when selecting second video clip. Alpha channel rendering issue when rendering video containing an alpha channel, followed by another asset on the same stream without an alpha channel. Movie. Clip. current. Label behavior inconsistent with Movie. Clip. current. Labels. Counter Strike Source Hack Undetected Dee more. Returns null, but correct label name is expected. Setting stage. mouse. Children or stage. Children to false does not disable mouse interaction for the stages children. Method closures do not work as keys in a Dictionary. Pixel snapped Flash. Type has incorrect spacing when scaled as compared to changing the point size of the font.