New Adobe Flash 64bit For Linux Coming 8th December

By , Published December 2, 2009

Adobe are to release a new version of their native 64-bit Flash plug-in for Linux on the 8th December.

Posting on the €œFlash 10 Player€ page for Linux 64 bit, Adobe make the following statement:-

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In text for those on small screens: -

Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on December 8, 2009 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. Learn more by reading the 64-bit Flash Player 10 FAQ.

For those not yet on the ball, this statement has been either released too early or is a typo. Given that the version of Flash x64 downloadable on the page is still the last-refreshed version released in July 2009 (v.10.0.32.18), the former seems the front runner in this deduction of pre-release logic.

This release comes just over a year since the first version of native 64bit Flash was made available on Linux.

Thanks to my ever resourceful eyes and ears, Martini1179

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    This is excellent. The only problems with Flashx64 is that I can’t click some embedded flash (like embedded youtube videos) but youtube and some flash sites work fine.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Ditto. I’d imagine this “refresh” should fix most of those issues and give us a ton more :D

    • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

      Wasn’t that a Karmic bug. I heard a lot of 32-bit people (including myself) with that issue. In fact there was a thread on this blog about how to fix it.

      • realgt

        yeah that was a bug with compiz and the 32bit flash installed by default on 64bit ubuntu systems. you can check if you’re using native 64bit flash by checking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for any npwrapper.libflashplayer.so files and if nspluginwrapper is installed. if so, remove it and download the 64bit flash and copy libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins

  • Mohan

    Good, been waiting for it!

  • Anonymous

    Will it support hardware acceleration?? Thinking of vdpau here!

  • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

    By the time Flash is good on Linux we wont need it due to HTML5 :-

  • http://livinginagoogleworld.blogspot.com/ Jonathan Frederickson

    Yes! Finally!

  • Anonymous

    As I developer, I’m still waiting for them to release a 64bit debug player, but a refresh of the 64bit release player is good news for the community.

  • daas88

    this is great news, i thought they forgot about us 64 bit users when they released the new 32bit flash recently.

  • Anonymous

    Cool news. Looking forward to this.

  • Anonymous

    Badass! I’m surprised you missed out the classic xkcd comic on this topic though :P

    http://www.interesting.co.nz

  • http://biringa.com/ WindPower

    Woot!

  • Martini1179

    Don’t get too cocky, but I think Adobe reads your blog. The “mistake” has been “corrected” and now indicated July 30th 2009 as the date. But what a specific mistake.

    • http://biringa.com/ EtiennePerot

      I think they read Slashdot instead, where the same thing was posted.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        Got a link to that? AFAIK we were the first on the net with this (but you’re right if it was on slashdot that’s where they’d have noted it.) and then UbuntuGeek (as always) did their copy and paste spiel, passing it off as if they’d found it…

        • http://biringa.com/ EtiennePerot

          Apologies, I probably mixed this with another Slashdot news :S There’s indeed no such Slashdot article… Sorry.
          So yeah, Adobe read your blog! :D

          • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

            Oh i only just noticed this blog post was popular on reddit (130 reactions from there) so that’s most likely where they came across it

      • Martini1179

        I too would like to see this non-existent Slashdot link.

        And I was mostly joking joking about Adobe reading this blog, wanted to give props to my homeh d0od.

    • http://devolute.net devolute

      How disappointing. Current bodged 64-bit Flash on Ubuntu is a performance and stability nightmare and the only reason I can think of to run 32-bit.

  • http://blogs.adobe.com/jd John Dowdell

    Hi, I see different text, mentioning July 30 2009 on this page:
    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html

    Are you actually seeing this, or was it a humor post, or…?

    tx, jd/adobe

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It has since been “corrected” by Adobe as you can read in the comments above yours.

  • http://pensieriacoriandoli.blogspot.com/ Giorg

    any news?