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Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the flash-in-the-pan dept.

Rinisari writes "Finally, the day has come. Adobe has released a pre-release version of the 64-bit Flash player. It is available at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 10 download site immediately. Where are the Windows and Mac versions? 'Release of this alpha version of 64-bit Flash Player on Linux is the first step in delivering upon Adobe's commitment to make Flash Player native 64-bit across platforms. We chose Linux as our initial platform in response to numerous requests in our public Flash Player bug and issue management system and the fact that Linux distributions do not ship with a 32-bit browser or a comprehensive 32-bit emulation layer by default. Until this pre-release, use of 32-bit Flash Player on Linux has required the use of a plugin wrapper, which prevents full compatibility with 64-bit browsers. With this pre-release, Flash Player 10 is now a full native participant on 64-bit Linux distributions.' Windows and Mac OS X 64-bit versions will follow, and the final versions all will be released simultaneously. Tamarin, the JIT compiler in Flash, is now capable of producing 64-bit code and nspluginwrapper is no longer required. There are, however, no plans to release a debugger version of the 64-bit plugin."

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  1. Just tested it by NeoBrain · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just tried it on my Fedora 9 64-bit installation and it works just fine. No crashes, no freezes, not like ATI drivers in XServer 1.5 :P Definitely a great move by Adobe, better release a working Flash plugin than a buggy and crashy one!

    1. Re:Just tested it by Radhruin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Confirmed. It's played everything I've thrown at it, and it is also considerably faster. With NSPluginWrapper, when I loaded a page full of flash graphs, the browser became sluggish for some time. With the alpha, the graphs load up instantly. So far I'm very impressed.

  2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by MasterOfMagic · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Gnash website:

    Streaming Video
            Gnash supports the viewing of streaming video from popular video sharing sites like Lulu.tv or YouTube.com.

    When they stop claiming it as a feature, then they get to be free of my criticism of their broken feature.

  3. Re:Let me be the first to say... by thue · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't even play YouTube with their latest releases on my AMD64 box.

    Youtube changed the video format to H264 for some/most/many of their videos recently. It used to work with swfdec.

    In the very latest dev version of swfdec the video works again, but there is no sound.

  4. Obligatory coral cache mirror by rufus+t+firefly · · Score: 3, Informative

    Direct download: http://download.macromedia.com.nyud.net/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

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  5. Re:Why linux first by FullCircle · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't get a native 64 bit version of firefox/IE at the moment, so there's no need for 64bit flash....

    Modded Insightful? Really?

    So why is there this "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" icon on every 64bit version of Windows?

    There is also this link with 64bit builds of Mozilla products: http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Download

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  6. Re:Why I bitch. by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm fairly sure I have a working 64-bit Java plugin, via OpenJDK. At least a few simple applets work, and I'm fairly sure I don't have a 32-bit Java on this machine.

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  7. Summary is wrong: Debugger *is* planned by mad.frog · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the blog of Tinic Uro, the engineer who did the bulk of the work:

    http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/11/64-bits.html

    A debugger version of the 64-bit version is not available yet. When we release it ActionScript 2 debugging will not work due the obsolete protocol which depends on 32bit pointers. ActionScript 3 debugging will be supported.