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64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha
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)."
Man, Flash Player locks up the CPU and crashes more often with gold releases than most alpha software. I think you'd have to be sadist to run software in alpha for Linux from Adobe.
Really? Honestly I haven't ever had any real issues with Flash since I've been running the 64bit release of about a year ago.
Even before that I had minimal issues running the 32bit version under 64bit Firefox via NSPluginWrapper.
I'm running Gentoo Linux and it works fine. No crashing, no lagging aside from trying to run YouTube in fullscreen doesn't always work out so swell (24" LCD @ 1920x1200 resolution). I suppose that's the lack of H/W acceleration.
I also don't have any issues using Adobe Reader. Maybe I am just lucky?
Actually, that's not true. Hulu mostly works fine for me in 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 and the latest Firefox. I'm running the latest Flash alpha. I can watch the videos, but the player controls are unusable (clicking on them does nothing). Fortunately, Hulu Desktop works, although the video is occasionally a little glitchy.
Now Netflix, that's a different story. Videos are unwatchably glitchy unless I use IE, where they play fine (yes, on Windows).
The amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc ports all seem to be coming along...
Oh wait, you wanted _Adobe_ to do something about it? I'm pretty sure they fired the only developer who understood their codebase years ago.