Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux 272
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 (Score:5, Interesting)
You are aware that the default browser in 64-bit Windows is 32-bit Internet Explorer?
I'm confused (Score:2, Interesting)
Instructions and download of latest flash 64-bit (Score:2, Interesting)
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 (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:This is why Flash must die. (Score:2, Interesting)
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 (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a new clause in the Flash 10.1 EULA [adobe.com] that was not present in 10.0 [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]?).