A heads up for those seeking the last PPC version (10.1 r102) - it is included in the last two 10.5 security updates from Apple. So you don't need to contend with Adobe's installer at all - just install the latest security update and it will be there (unless you already have a more recent version installed).

This thing is just brilliant. I've been frustrated by the limitations of other Flash to HTML5 solutions, but not this one. It works on all sites where YouTube videos are hosted (not just YouTube itself), it's fast, it's seamless, it's stable and it has all the features you want - and none of the ones you don't (ADS). 5 starts all round!

Am I the only person who is annoyed by Chrome's ridiculous version number creep? It's barely out of beta and we're already up to version 6! If it were from anyone other than Google, this would be version 1.5 at most. We'll be up to version 20 or more by next year at this rate!

Those who think Chrome uses less memory than Safari should be aware that it creates multiple separate processes (to allow the separate tab processes). You can't just look at the core process to judge Chrome's memory use - you have to add up all of them. If you do this, you'll suddenly find that it actually uses more memory than Safari.

Apart from the separate tab processes, I can't see any significant advantage of Chrome over Safari 5 - and there's plenty of disadvantages. And even as a single process, Safari hardly ever crashes anyway (when installed correctly), and you can immediately re-launch it without any problems when it does. And all the tests show that Safari 5 is the fastest overall (albeit not by much relative to Chrome, as they both use the same browser engine).

So given Google's data mining, it's hard for me to see why a Mac user would choose Chrome over Safari.

Good news: unlike the release candidates, this version no longer sends my fans into overdrive. However, given Kawaii's comment below, this may be related to the fact that I upgraded to Safari 5 just before installing Flash 10.1. The plug-in appears to have the correct permissions now too.

Bad news: this version was clearly released as a fix for the recent critical security hole in 10.0 - Adobe still hasn't go the hardware acceleration working stably on a Mac. And the uninstaller still installs with the wrong permissions.

I see many people have corroborated my experience that 10.1 makes the fans go ballistic on their machines. This is just totally outrageous - nothing else on my machine has ever done this, and it's just a browser plug-in that's a mere video container on most sites. And it doesn't install with the right permissions either - a simple problem that has been reported to Adobe but hasn't been fixed.

Also outrageously, Adobe calls it "lightweight", and claims that 10.1 is the leanest version ever. But even 10.0 doesn't send my fans into overdrive. It seems the more Adobe promises, the less they deliver - perhaps the problem is that Flash is now overloaded with hot air.

Listen Adobe: actions speak louder than words. Instead of coming up with all this "we believe in open markets" cry-baby stuff to get Flash on the iPhone (when Adobe has actually done the most to close competition in software this side of Microsoft), just deliver a Flash plug-in that works. So far, with every word and more importantly every Flash release, you're just proving Steve Jobs right. Surely it can't be that hard to make such a simple plug-in work without having to use every processor cycle available on even the very latest machines?