Adobe offers downloadable Universal Binary version of Flash Player

Intel-based Macs ship with a "preview" version of Adobe's Flash Player that allows Safari and other browsers to view embedded Flash content. However, the company did not -- until yesterday -- offer a downloadable version of the Universal Flash Player (it was shipped pre-installed on Intel-based Macs' only).

Adobe has now posted an updated version of the Universal Binary Flash Player.

The company says:

"The preview release of Flash Player 8 runs natively on Intel-based Macs, but it has not been extensively tested and customers may run into compatibility, performance, and other issues. Alternatively, users can view Flash content on Intel-based Macs with Safari in Rosetta mode. Running the Flash Player preview release in Rosetta mode may be noticeably slower than when running on a PowerPC-based Mac."

"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. The preview release of Flash Player 8 for Intel-based Macs will then be replaced with a final release version of Flash Player 8.5 for the platform."

The Flash Player 8 (8.0.27.0) preview release is available as a 2.02 MB standalone download.

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