There's no mention here of support for the new WebM video format, which Google, Opera and Mozilla launched last month to serve as an open alternative to H.264. There's also a new buffering system, so you can pause, rewind and fast-forward streaming video just like you're watching it on a DVR (as long as the provider is allowing for it). There are a raft of video improvements – we get hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding, better HTTP streaming that supports dynamic bitrates for live video streams, and support for peer-assisted video streams (aka "Multicasting"). On the security front, the new Flash Player will fully honor the rules of your browser's private browsing mode by not caching any data on the local system while private browsing is enabled. Mac users will also notice a significant improvement, as the Flash team says it has paid particular attention to Mac OS X and Safari issues in this release. These enhancements should prevent nasty problems like Flash Player causing your browser to crash or your entire OS to freeze, which is usually the result of more Flash than your computer can handle at once – something netbook owners know all too well.
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