64-bit Adobe Flash Player

[oz]

For those needing a 64-bit Flash player, here's a preview release that Adobe has just been made available:

Adobe Labs - Adobe Flash Player 10.1


Quick Edit: I hardly ever install or use Flash players myself, but I installed this just to see if it works and it seems to work fine on the 4 or 5 videos that I tried it on.

[MikeTbob]

This is great news for 64 bit Flash users, but damnit man, I just went back to 32 bit Gentoo!
If I ever get more than 4GB RAM, I might go back to 64 but other than that.....SPPPLLLLTTTTTT *blowing raspberry* is all I got to say about that!

[techieMoe]

This is great news for 64 bit Flash users, but damnit man, I just went back to 32 bit Gentoo!
If I ever get more than 4GB RAM, I might go back to 64 but other than that.....SPPPLLLLTTTTTT *blowing raspberry* is all I got to say about that!

Well, you know they were just waiting in the wings saying, "We're not going to release this preview until after MikeTbob swaps back to 32-bit. That'll vex him."

I'm convinced that's what Blizzard does with their games. Drop the price for the Diablo or Warcraft Battle Chests immediately after I give in and pay full price for them.

[Etna]

Well, all i can say for now is this: MAJOR thumbs up to Adobe for finally coming through and delivering x64 Flash for all platforms.

Just tried it on Windows Vista x64 on INternet Explorer 8, Chrome and Firefox and it worked like a charm. But then again, Flash ALWAYS worked best in Windows.

Also got it running off Fedora 10 x64 in Chromium, IceCat and MineField. Works fine, as far as i can see.

Adobe, if you're reading this, you have my thanks. Although the fact that Windows and Linux users had to wait for almost 2 years for this kinds of still stings when you think about it.

[oz]

This is great news for 64 bit Flash users, but damnit man, I just went back to 32 bit Gentoo!

Ouch - bummer! 32-bit Linux works great if you don't have 4GB or more of RAM. I have one machine with 6GB and one with 8GB so 64-bit is important to me on those. Otherwise, I'm fine with 32-bit. I don't personally have much use for Flash on either of version, though, and keep hoping that a good replacement will turn up.

[Manko10]

I stuck with 10.0.45 64bit for a long time because some applications didn't work with current 10.1 but after a while I switched to that version due to security reasons. I'm glad Adobe kept their word and continued supporting Linux 64bit.
Will see how long it takes until it's in Portage but maybe I'll write a custom ebuild for this if it takes too long.

I have one machine with 6GB and one with 8GB so 64-bit is important to me on those.

I also use a machine with 8GB RAM running Gentoo 64bit on it. But also 32bit systems can use up to (theoretical) 64GB of RAM when highmem support ist enabled (called Physical Address Extensions, PAE). But per-process memory is of course still limited to 4GB anyway.

[oz]

As noted in an earlier post above, I don't generally install or use Flash Player much, but for those times when I do so, my own favorite way of installing it in Firefox is to simply extract the tarball downloaded from the Adobe site, then move the .so file to the plugins folder found within the hidden ~/.mozilla folder (creating the plugins folder if it doesn't already exist). Of course, a restart is required for Firefox.

This method has always worked for me, and it makes removal or upgrading really easy, plus I don't have to worry about the package being in my distro repositories.

[Etna]

As noted in an earlier post above, I don't generally install or use Flash Player much, but for those times when I do so, my own favorite way of installing it in Firefox is to simply extract the tarball downloaded from the Adobe site, then move the .so file to the plugins folder found within the hidden ~/.mozilla folder (creating the plugins folder if it doesn't already exist). Of course, a restart is required for Firefox.

This method has always worked for me, and it makes removal or upgrading really easy, plus I don't have to worry about the package being in my distro repositories.

that also happens to be my preferred method. gives me total control of where i want the file to go.

Although you don't always have to make use of the hidden .mozilla folder. Sometimes, for convenience sake, i dump the plugin into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. this allows most web browsers to automatically detect the plugin.

[oz]

Judging from the various reports that I've been reading here and there, this newly released beta is working better overall than the nspluginwrapper plus lib32 libraries option. I've never tried the 32-bit version on 64-bit Linux so can't speak to that setup either way.

[coopstah13]

plugin still runs like crap compared to windows