Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Beta Available for Download

Flash Player 11.6 drives innovation for rich, engaging digital experiences with new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich internet applications, content, and videos across devices. This beta release provides access to the Flash Player 11.6 runtime for Mac OS and Windows desktop environments.

Important note: The Flash Player 11.6 beta is designed for evaluation purposes only. Adobe do not recommended that this release be used on production systems or for any mission-critical work.

What's new in Flash Player 11.6 Beta?
Flash Player 11.6 beta provides access to the Flash Player 11.6 runtime for Windows and Mac OS. The key features and benefits of Flash Player 11.6 are:

Full Screen Permission Dialog UI Improvement:
Changed the location of the the permission dialog to the middle of the screen. Also improved the user experience when going into full screen mode by adding the "Cancel" button.

Graphics Data Query:
Developers will be able to read the structure of the display object and read vector data at runtime. For example, game developers can create complex Sprite Sheets or they can create exporters at runtime to any file format (SVG as an example).

Additional feature details available in the release notes.

Download Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Beta (December 7, 2012)
Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Beta is available here: Adobe Lab Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you:

Note: The ActiveX Flash Player in this release is not compatible with Windows 8. Flash Player for Windows 8 is available as part of the Windows 8 release preview.

What's new in Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Beta?
Flash Player 11.6 Beta includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility:
  • Full Screen Permission Dialog UI Improvement.
  • Graphics Data Query.
  • Multiple SWF Support.
  • Exclude devices from requestedDisplayResolution tag.

Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
  • 3302748 - Firefox becomes unresponsive when playing "Park Master" at freeonlinegames.com with Protected Mode enabled.
  • 3300864 - [Mozilla 775357] Fixes a random hang in Firefox that affects a small number of users
  • 3367994 - Fixes performance issue observed on Dungeon Defenders when using Chrome Pepper.
  • 3368009 - Fixes a text performance issue on Mac 10.6.8 running Chrome Pepper.
  • 3308573 - [Chromium 138366] Fixes an issue where the camera/mic permissions dialog was not clickable on Mac with Chrome Pepper
  • 3309699 - Camera stretched on Windows when camera is set to dimensions of 2592 x 1944
  • 3372045 - _width and _height not working after loadMovie on Windows
  • 3350899 - Flash shows white screen as Webcam Feed
  • 3330019 - Live MP3 streams not working after latest update on Mac OSX with the NPAPI Plug-In
  • 3352179 - SWF tag DefineBitsJPEG2 does not render JPEG image data after 11.4.402.287
  • 3334000 - Corrects an issue where the Allow Interactive Full-Screen dialog was incorrectly sized on Windows when a SWF was published with Hardware Acceleration disabled, when viewed on a machine using the NPAPI plug-in after Flash Player 11.4.402.265
  • 3362789 - Images not loading with new flash player
  • 3163043 - Videos do noot loop correctly since Flash Player 11.2.  (aka Last Video Frame not displayed/Last Video Frame stalls)
  • 3298256 - Fixed an issue where in some instances, the Slow Script warning caused the browser to hang when using ProtectedMode for Firefox on Windows
  • 3340511 - Corrects an issue where Output Protection did not work correctly with multiple monitors
  • 3360459 - Corrects an issue where content requiring Output Protection did not play on a Retina Macbook Pro Internal Monitor
  • 3371795 - Fixes an bug on WinXP x86  with Chrome Pepper where Chrome would hang when trying to select text in Flash content.
  • 3354115 - Fixes a performance problem with HDS streaming playback that only occurred when using the Software Decoder with StageVideo.

Sources:
Adobe Labs Downloads
Announcement: Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Available For Download

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