Yes, the PS3 browser included a Flash player ! But no way to update the player manually, or knowing which version it is.

With a quick test i discovered that Sony embeded the Flash Player V7.

Knowing the PS3 power, i wanted to know if the flash player performances were as disapointed as the PSP flash player.

So i wrote a little benchmark on : http://www.lecrabe.net/labo/ps3/test7.html

The fla starts at 60fps, and many crabs appear as long as the fps doesn't go down 25fps.

The final result is that on my laptop (PC with XP), i go up to :

 * 111 crabs with Iexplorer
 * 41 crabs with Mozilla
 * 41 crabs with PS3 Flash Player 7

As a same result as the PSP flash player, the PS3 Flash Player is still a dispointment is terms of power.

But the player is quite powerful enough to develop some intersting games i guess.

To be continued...