Adobe Posted Preview Edition of Macromedia Flash Player 8.0.27 with Universal Binary for Intel Macs

As we were first to note Tuesday night for Wednesday's edition, Macromedia's latest Flash Player 8.0.24 update does not work correctly with the version of Safari that comes on Intel Macs. The workarounds were to revert to the version of Flash Player that came with Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Intel), to force Safari to run in Rosetta or to use a web browser that runs normally in Rosetta like Mozilla's Sea Monkey.

Now, Adobe has posted a preview universal edition of Flash Player v8.0.27 that is available, along with details, from this Adobe Web page. In our hands-on testing 8.0.27 works fine with Safari on our 20" 2GHz iMac Core Duo, displaying version 8.0.27 on the Flash Player test page. When the Flash Player test page is viewed with Sea Monkey, it shows v8.0.24 as it should for a web browser running in Rosetta.

For the future, Adobe states:

Adobe plans to support the new Intel-based Macs with Flash Player 8.5, after the initial release of the Windows and PowerPC-based Mac versions.

Adobe has also provided a PDF FAQ covering Flash Player support on Intel-based Macs. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox]