Flash Player 10.1 (rc2) seems to be less taxing

I'm the last one to evangelise Adobe's Flash Player, but an
improvement seems to be on the horizon.

Disclaimer: I hope Flash dies, and I'm oh so happy that the iPhone OS
doesn't support it. Though quite saddened that Flash will be
[sup]ported to Android. As a web developer: die flash, die.

Hulu is a great service to watch American TV shows if you can tunnel
you connection to the US. My desktop is eight years old and running
flash is the last thing it needs. The Hulu Desktop client allows you
specify which flash library to use, so I opted for the still in
development 10.1 player. Unfortunately Hulu was unusable so I logged a
bug with Adobe[1]

A couple releases later, the 10.1 flash player now works with Hulu.
Watching the Gnome system graph, 10.1 uses ~50% CPU whereas 10.0 uses
70-80% CPU. It is an visible improvement for a hater like myself... so
they must be doing something right.

[1] http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-3541

This may be of interest to those who get cranky every time there CPU
gets abused by Flash.

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