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64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-shiny dept.

Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care. Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins)."

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  1. This isn't news... by AllyGreen · · Score: 5, Informative

    The 64 bit flash player has been in alpha for over a year....

    1. Re:This isn't news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      The date on the article is November 19, 2008. Even by Slashdot standards, this is ridiculously old news.

    2. Re:This isn't news... by AllyGreen · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wow, just checked the date of the first article thats linked in the summary, nov 19th 2008!

    3. Re:This isn't news... by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Informative

      64-bit enthusiasts?

      x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.

    4. Re:This isn't news... by ZombieWomble · · Score: 4, Informative
      This article seems to have popped up because Adobe have indeed released an updated version of the flash player on the 11th of this month. Still alpha, but slightly newer. Pleasingly, it seems to have fixed the only persistent bug I had with the player (which caused Firefox to report a crash every time it was closed - no actual errant behaviour, however).

      Why exactly the submitter picked at year-and-a-bit old article as a reference for this news is still a mystery, however.

    5. Re:This isn't news... by Sillygates · · Score: 2, Informative

      I've been using it for at least a year, probably edging toward a year and a half...

      Now I'll be waiting for someone to realize that the beta java plugin *just* became available....

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      I fear the Y2038 bug
  2. No performance improvement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    From http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/faq.html

    Will application performance improve with the 64-bit Flash Player?
    A 64-bit Flash Player will not necessarily result in improved application performance. The major benefit is for Flash Player to be fully compatible with 64-bit Linux distributions so that it is both easier to install and works as expected without requiring emulation.

  3. Old news, slight revision, still broken Hulu. by proxima · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is another revision over previous 64-bit Flash revisions. I've been using it for months, mostly without trouble.

    Around mid-January though, Hulu broke with all Linux clients running 64-bit Flash. You get "Sorry, we are unable to stream this video", and the support forum is full of people reporting it. As far as I know Hulu has provided no response, and there are rumors that something related to video DRM that Hulu enabled (must be recently) is not supported in the 64-bit Flash player yet. Workarounds including using the Hulu desktop (which some report as buggy), watching at least some of the videos via Fancast (which I didn't even know existed), or using the 32-bit plugin. I just tried this 10.0.45 release and it has the same problem.

    --
    "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
  4. Re:Downtime is the name of the game by h4rr4r · · Score: 2, Informative

    The douchebag who writes that blog can be ignored, gnash has VA-API support already.

    Adobe should just fund gnash or at least find a better linux developer for their port.

  5. Re:Countdown timer initiated by StuartHankins · · Score: 2, Informative

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor