The red line: Stop talking about it. This just means 'not for public use' and was a feature of the TI release.

Yes, it's slow, that because unlike the official v9 plugin it's not hardware accelerated, so will soak up CPU and battery. Stop asking.

Yes, the N900 was demoed running v10, by Adobe, but no, there are not enough N900 - Adobe would rather spend their limited time on Android and cross-compiling for iPad/iPhone. Can't blame 'em- look at the sales figures.

*That said*, I do ask Adobe now and again, and they always say something to the effect of 'it's on the list, but not a priority'. I take that to mean Nokia didn't sell enough, and as Nokia have dropped Maemo like a hot potato, I don't expect much progress. You'd need to really get into the guts of the source of Flash Player to make it do all the things v10 does on mobile (not just hardware acceleration, but lowering frame rate when idle etc). Not something Adobe are going to let the community do. Sorry.

Maybe Meego will have v10.