64-bit Flash Player!
Today Adobe is releasing an alpha version of a 64-bit Flash player for Linux. I cannot explain how happy this makes me. I have been dealing with shitty 32-bit Flash players running on 32-bit emulation in 64-bit browsers in Linux for about the past five years, and it has caused me nothing but endless annoyance and frustration. Half the time I have to refresh a page a few times because Flash keeps dying, and even when it manages to play it’s a complete coin toss as to whether there will be sound. With my current setup I basically have to close Amarok to play a Flash video if I want to hear sound. Adobe is years late to the party with this one, but better late than never, right?
1 comment to 64-bit Flash Player!
Dude, I run 32 bit flash on a 32 bit system and it still sucks major ass. After a couple hours of uptime, sound refuses to work or is incredibly choppy in firefox, and often loading a page with flash will hang firefox.
Surprisingly, flash works great in Konqueror.
13 December 2008 at 20:47