Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta 3 Comes w/o 64-bit Linux

[pvtcupcakes]

i doubt that adobe will make 64-bit flash mainstream until mozilla makes a 64-bit browser.

has adobe only made a 64 bit beta for linux?

Yes, 64-bit Flash is only available for Linux. That means no 64-bit Flash for the 64-bit version of IE. And OS X probably uses nspluginwrapper for Safari which AFAIK is also 64-bit.

And you can compile a 64-bit version of Firefox with a 64-bit GCC. But Mozilla doesn't do a 64-bit version for Windows. And I don't know what their OS X version is.

[Kano]

@portets43

Basically there are 2 - just a bit hidden. Those are only dev versions. For the latest stable there is no official 64 bit binary.

I usually prefer:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox-3.6.x/

But there is also a 3.7 branch:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Everything else is compiled directly by the distributions.

[pejakm]

You're joking, right? I seriously hope you do.

I'm not so familiar with dirac, could you please elaborate why it is not convenient? Thanks

[brent]

How can it be slow?

The IPC overhead makes it kind of slow.

I also don't see why we don't just go with Dirac. The technical downsides versus H.264 range from negligible to none depending upon who you ask.

You're joking, right? I seriously hope you do.

[portets43]

i doubt that adobe will make 64-bit flash mainstream until mozilla makes a 64-bit browser.

has adobe only made a 64 bit beta for linux?

[yotambien]

That's the most serious problem right after

When I read your sentence until that point I went all WTF

the reptilian aliens from Aldebaran controlling the world's governments if you ask me.

but thankfully a split of a second later you cracked me up.

[Kano]

In a short test it does not crash that often like the betas before. Have to test it a bit longer - but i see basically no diff to 10.0.

[Smorg]

HTML5 needs to happen sooner rather than later, and on a large scale.

I also don't see why we don't just go with Dirac. The technical downsides versus H.264 range from negligible to none depending upon who you ask. The fact that it's royalty free makes it more than worth it considering the fact that the entire point in the HTML5 video tag is to provide a universal open standard.

[r1348]

I start to think that Steve Jobs was right in the end: Adobe guys are just lazy!

[gbeauche]

Which is slow and makes plug-ins crashing. I had to disable it...

How can it be slow? As for plug-ins crashing, it's limited to Flash because of an XEMBED implementation bug in Firefox or the way the Adobe plug-in is mugling with the X window hierarchy... It would crash when the page is destroyed though. This will work correctly with WebKit-based browsers.