Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that with the release of the 10.1 security patches, Adobe has, at least temporarily, killed 64-bit Flash for Linux. The statement says: 'The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time. Please feel free to continue your discussions on the Flash Player 10.1 desktop forums.' The 64-bit forum has been set to read-only."

Re:Committed

[VGPowerlord]

We know that Silverlight is suppoting 64-bit. We know that Microsoft has been pushing 64-bit since 2003. We know all new Windows 7 PCs are coming 64-bit. And we will continue to keep our heads in the sand.

You are aware that the default browser in 64-bit Windows is 32-bit Internet Explorer?

I'm confused

[Anonymous Coward]

We love flash in Apple/Android stories but hate it in Adobe stories... what about other stories?

Instructions and download of latest flash 64-bit

[Anonymous Coward]

Can be found here: http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/install-64-bit-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-904/ (with md5 of the file, up to date with Ubuntu 10.04 and other distributions).

This guy made it possible for me to convert all my linux installs to 64-bit.

Re:Committed

[squizzar]

Not to mention VS2010 - which is depressingly slow on my x64 Windows 7 machine. I thought there was already some way of running 32 bit Firefox with 32 bit flash on 64 bit linux? That's basically Microsoft's 'Solution'

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Re:This is why Flash must die.

[Cougar Town]

I use Chrome (5.0.375.70 on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10) and I find it leaks memory like crazy. I do use it for my daily browsing because like you said it's quite fast... but if I leave it running over night, I come back to work the next morning to find it's consumed all free memory on my system and even enough more to push other apps out to swap. The whole system is horribly slow and killing Chrome instantly frees up half of my RAM and puts things back to normal. If I leave it over a weekend, I might as well just hard reset the machine instead of spending 15 minutes waiting for swap so I can kill Chrome and let things come back into RAM. This is on an i7 980X w/6 GB, so it's not exactly a low-end system.

It seems to be sites like Facebook with regular dynamic updates that do it. I've started just closing Chrome when I leave for the day.

New "feature" in 10.1: DRM

[200_success]

There is a new clause in the Flash 10.1 EULA [adobe.com] that was not present in 10.0 [adobe.com]:

7.6 Content Protection Technology. If you Use the Adobe Runtimes to access content that has been protected with Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server or Flash Access software (“Content Protection”), in order to let you play the protected content, the Software may automatically request media usage rights and individualization rights from a rights server on the Internet, and may download and install required components of the Software, including any available Content Protection Updates. You can find more information on Content Protection at http://www.adobe.com/go/protected_content [adobe.com].

You have to download a 3.3 MB PDF with 280 pages to find this kind of stuff. There's no telling how far these updates will go (remember TurboTax DRM [slashdot.org]?).