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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. Re:Downtime is the name of the game by corychristison · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?