[otto]

I took that as a paraphrased quote from a tech journalist.

I hope you are right though.

I know from my experience with Flash on Linux that it is insane, Flash eventually consumes 4gb of memory and slows my computer to a halt. I finally just removed the plugin and browse without flash.

[cjbos]

You can read the release notes to understand the changes, they detail them pretty well. First 7 pages are changes.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote... (PDF Link)

Also there is a huge number of bug fixes in this release... don't know why they didn't just call it Flash Player 11, it's not really a dot release.