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Adobe releases alpha 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux
by Lee Mathews Nov 20th 2008 at 12:30PM
It's been a long time coming. For ages, users have been forced to use nspluginwrapper to enable the 32-bit Flash player in their browser. With the official alpha release from Adobe, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Adobe's increased attention to Linux may have something to do with the fact that nearly a quarter of all Firefox crashes on Linux systems are related to the Flash plugin.
Availability of the 64-bit version is yet another boost for Flash on Linux. Version 10 made significant strides in terms of performance and compatability.
Linux users can get their hands on the plugin from this page at Adobe Labs.
Since I've recently installed Vista Ultimate x64 on my workstation, I'm hopeful that Adobe will do the right thing and roll out a Windows version as well. The company has stated that next major release the plugin will feature 64-bit versions for all three major platforms.
[ via Ars Technica ]
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Lee Mathews said 2:39PM on 11-20-2008
Agreed...Sun really needs to step up on that one. It's hard to believe that Java hasn't gone native 64 bit yet.
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Superevil said 4:07PM on 11-20-2008
Have they fixed the bug that stalls Firefox everytime I try to load a flash video on Ubuntu Hardy?
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supernova_hq said 2:00AM on 11-21-2008
I hate posting twice to the same article, but I can't get the flash player to work, so I guess Sun gets (almost) a tie here.
Freaking .so file segfaults!!!
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supernova_hq said 2:00AM on 11-21-2008
So, Sun ... Where's my 64 bit java plugin?!?
I know, different company and there are open source plugins, but I still have to load a 32bit firefox session to upload anything to my school's blackboard system! :(
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Vadi said 9:14AM on 11-21-2008
Even though this is 'alpha' quality as labelled by Adobe, this is already faster and stabler than nsplugin. ofc thanks to nsplugin we at least had *some* kind of flash (otherwise, not a lot would be on 64bit linux..)
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rendezvous65 said 9:34PM on 11-23-2008
I have this version of Flash. However, I had to compile my own version of libflashsupport.so since I use OSS which is the only sound system that works with my X-Fi. It works nice but OSS is not allowing me to have a media player and flash. Still working on that though.
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rendezvous65 said 5:47PM on 12-07-2008
OSX and Windows are also going to get a 64 bit Flash plugin but not right now. A beta version of Flash 10 64 bit could be released for windows. I'm sure the beta versions of Flash 11 will have 64 bit support natively for OSX, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Flash Player 11 will be native 64 bit. The OSX 64 bit support will require an Intel mac.
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