64bit Flash for Linux returns

By , Published September 16, 2010

A new preview release of a native 64bit Flash plugin for Linux has been release via Adobe Labs today.

Adobe has previously made a testing version of their 64bit plugin available for users however this was discontinued, somewhat abruptly, earlier this year.

The new 64bit Flash Player, nicked named “Square”,  is available via Adobe Labs for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems.

Users should note that as this release is termed a ‘preview’ and should not be taken as a final stable release.

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Installation

Installation of the Flash preview has to be done manually – but this isn’t that difficult.

  • Unpackage the file.
  • Copy the libflashplayer.so file to the plugins folder of your browser:
    • /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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  • http://twitter.com/Nickedynick Nick Stringer

    Hurrah!! Thanks, Adobe :-)

    • Anonymous

      What exactly for? For being so kind to continue the development on a nowadays rather anachronistic web application, even for us third class citizens/Linux users with 64 Bit systems?

      You see, this (among other things) is the problem with proprietary software. You completely depend on the “courtesy” of a company, once they managed to establish a certain standard.

      In my eyes, there is absolutely no reason for any gratitude towards Adobe, since they are undermining a lot of potential in development (regarding end user web experience) with their closed source piece of crap!

      • Hummerh1

        Well said.

      • Anonymous

        Agreed–100%.

        But maybe it’ll suck less to watch Hulu now.

        Hello, my name is crazybilly, and I have an ethics problem.

      • http://twitter.com/Nickedynick Nick Stringer

        Yes, but like it or not Flash is hugely prevalent on the web. And Adobe didn’t HAVE to continue x64 support for Linux.

  • http://twitter.com/mickstep Michael Stephenson

    Woot!
    Edit: Seem’s like the adobe server is undergoing some kind of Digg/Reddit/Slashdot effect atm. Anyone got the .so file they can dropbox/ubuntuone me?

  • http://twitter.com/mickstep Michael Stephenson

    Woot!
    Edit: Seem’s like the adobe server is undergoing some kind of Digg/Reddit/Slashdot effect atm. Anyone got the .so file they can dropbox/ubuntuone me?

  • http://twitter.com/medg85 Matthew Goode

    Under Product Details > FAQ:

    “Native 64-bit support will be available in Flash Player during the first half of 2011.”

    So it doesn’t look like long until we get native 64-bit support :-)

  • Django

    I have always very high cpu-use when watching flash-videos in the i-net. Sometimes firefox crashes because of it. No matter if i use 32-bit oder 64-bit… flash is for me a nightmare. I have a intel core 2 duo T7500 and a nvidia geforce 8600gs but it seems it is not enough for flash. But some people have no problems. I have no idea what is wrong. Always installing from ppa or restricted extras-package. I hope this version will be available soon in a ppa and wont use so much cpu-power and let my notebook overheat…

    • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

      look above: someone mentioned the “sevenmachines” ppa already.

    • Tiel_tiel

      i got an overclocked amd athlon x2 64 4600, my previous flash player was a 32bit one since i couldn’t find the old 64bit flash player(newbie).
      Now that i installed the new one it solved all the youtube problems such as “the button and resolution anomalies ” but its way too slow when in full screen , its a bottleneck. (btw my gpu is a gtx260 latest drivers installed)
      I made a proper installation, i m pretty sure. Is there any comfort in all this? Is it my pc thats way old or is the flash player a bad one. When in windows 7 i play 1080p videos with no problem at all.
      Send me your comments and advices. I am desperate to learn linux and abort microsoft /

  • https://launchpad.net/~boniboyblue Boni Boy Blue

    I’ve never had a problem with Flash and my CPU, always seems to run at around 20%-30% and I have once seen it raise about 50%.

    • lala

      But isn’t that too much for a mere video? I mean, on mplayer my CPU uses more than half of what Flash does to play HD video, while Flash only plays 360p. What da frell? On the other hand, HTML5 is not better as it is now… :( Not that I have a very puny CPU, it’s just that it seriously compromises battery life.

      • https://launchpad.net/~boniboyblue Boni Boy Blue

        Then that would be it, I have a powerful computer and haven’t really been bothered by it but I have used my girlfriend’s netbook now and again and it does get terrible slow,

  • Someone :)

    You should all thank Microsoft for this.

    • lala

      How so? Please elaborate…

      • https://launchpad.net/~boniboyblue Boni Boy Blue

        I think he’s relating to the IE9 things.

      • https://launchpad.net/~boniboyblue Boni Boy Blue

        I think he’s relating to the IE9 things.

  • http://misse.myopenid.com/ Martin

    Just wondering, is that really all it takes to install the plugin? No need to remove the old one installed via aptitude? How can I confirm that I’m using the new plugin?

    • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

      Right-click on an applet an open the “about” page. It is supposed to say “10.1.82.76″ there, I think.

      • Dusten B.

        Flash “Square” will be v10.2.x.x. Point Firefox to about:plugins to see the version Firefox is using. I’m showing 10.2d161, which is 10.2.161.0.

        Seems to work pretty good, BTW. CPU usage appears to be only marginally improved. My poor old 3.2GHz Celeron still can’t keep up with fullscreen in-browser flash.

        • http://misse.myopenid.com/ Martin

          Thanks for your help. I used about:plugin to find out that my default player was npwrapper.libflashplayer.so in /var/lib/flashplugin-installer. So I solved it quick n dirty by moving that .so someplace else and restarting firefox, thus using the .so downloaded from adobe :)

  • Anonymous

    YEAH! Great timing as I was just starting to get really pissed off at the buggy npviewer set up!

    I have missed the native one. =D

  • Anonymous

    YEAH! Great timing as I was just starting to get really pissed off at the buggy npviewer set up!

    I have missed the native one. =D

  • http://twitter.com/Ryu_Kurisu Christiaan Druif

    Great, YouTube works again. Didn’t work this morning after I read that Chromium had an internal Flash-thingy. But it broke when I removed the flash-thingys in USC.

    I thought it had one internal, so I could dump that shit =P

    • Anonymous

      Hey, Google Chrome does have flash built in. Chromium is open source, therefore cannot have internal flash. It relies on the plugin. (Chromium and Chrome are not exactly the same thing!)

      • http://twitter.com/Ryu_Kurisu Christiaan Druif

        When I went to Youtube to watch some clips, it said I needed to update my Flash; when I clicked the link to get the latest Flash version, it said “Chrome is already running latest Flash” or something similar.

        A few instructions later (adding –enable-plugins to the launcher) to enable Flash, without installing extra plugins.
        That’s why I assumed I could remove all that Flash plugin stuff in UCS.

  • Thatguy

    It’s about damn time

  • http://twitter.com/ylynfatt Yannick

    So far it’s been working pretty good for me.

  • http://anotherandrew.com smiggs

    What’s stability like on the new release? I’ve been running the previous ‘beta’ or ‘preview’ release of flash 10 on my ubuntu 10.04 x64 install and it’s been fairly stable, I’m reluctant to upgrade given that flash can be somewhat unstable, even the actual releases leave something to be desired.

    • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

      works well, nice speed improvement

    • http://twitter.com/benzjaminz Ben I

      seems to use more cpu for me. But great improvement on speed and some issues I had with the 32 bit version have gone.

  • http://twitter.com/orawas orawas

    Hopefully by the time ubuntu hits 11.04, there will be an official 64-bit release.

  • http://reelbadcinema.com Erik Dan

    If this gains traction, one more excuse against 64 bit adoption will be made pointless.

    • http://flavors.me/davidpotter ninjaguardsheep

      My only excuse… 64 bit maverick methinks :)

  • Anonymous

    The PPA from way back when has been updated also :)
    ppa:sevenmachines/flash

  • Anonymous

    I just love that, on that page, they list the OSes in the order, “Linux, Mac, and Windows.” Usually it’s the other way around, so it’s kinda’ refreshing to see Linux mentioned FIRST.

    However, they could just be listing the OSes in their level of importance to Adobe, from least to highest. Lmao. But no really, thanks Adobe.

    • Anonymous

      Or, ya know, it could be alphabetical :P It is nice to see that Linux isn’t tacked on like an afterthought. Heck, it’s nice to see Linux on the list again at all!

    • Anonymous

      Or, ya know, it could be alphabetical :P It is nice to see that Linux isn’t tacked on like an afterthought. Heck, it’s nice to see Linux on the list again at all!

    • Anonymous

      Or, ya know, it could be alphabetical :P It is nice to see that Linux isn’t tacked on like an afterthought. Heck, it’s nice to see Linux on the list again at all!

    • http://interesting.co.nz Benjamin Humphrey

      It does flow quite nicely because you have two syllables, one syllable, two syllables.

      • Anonymous

        “Windows, Mac, Linux” is that way too.

  • Arve NygÃ¥rd

    how would you go about installing this in Chrome? Not ALL of us use Firefox :)

    • https://launchpad.net/~boniboyblue Boni Boy Blue

      Chrome will still use all the plugins that are in ~/mozilla/plugins, I use chromium and that’s where I placed it and it works.

  • dyna

    Seems to be a lot better with handling multiple flash videos then the previous 64-bit versions, which was even worse then running the 32-bit with npviewer.

    Still always horrible lag on the controls in full screen mode though, far worse then the 32-bit with npviewer sometimes does.

    Well atleast one of those 2 things is now fixed, so now i can go figure out which of the 2 i find more import :)
    Horrible lag is always a great pain though.

  • Apple

    <3

  • Hemebond

    What have they done to the temporary video files? I used to be able to watch them out of /tmp/ but they’re not being created in there anymore.

    • Tom Glenne

      They’ve configured it so that it unlinks the file handle, so the only process that can still access it the one that opened it in the first place – flash. I found this script that saves all the active videos to a file for you:

      #!/bin/bash
      DEST=”/media/temp/vids/”
      PID=`ps x | grep libflashplayer.so | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $1}’`
      FD=`lsof -p $PID | grep Flash | awk ‘{print $4}’ | sed ‘s/u$//’`

      while IFS=’ ‘ read -ra ADDR; do
      for x in “${ADDR[@]}”; do
      # process “$x”
      FN=`mktemp –tmpdir=”$DEST”` # create a temp file
      cp “/proc/$PID/fd/$x” “$FN” # copy video to the temp file
      S=`du -h “$FN” | awk ‘{print $1}’` # get its size
      echo “copied video $x to $FN ($S)” # print info
      done
      done <<< "$FD"

  • Antonio

    OMG IT WORKS!!!

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  • abhilash ab

    Features of  Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta 1:

    (1)G.711 audio compression for telephony (can be used to integrate telephony/voice into business applications using the G.711 codec;
    (2)H.264/AVC Software Encoding for webcams, to locally encode higher quality video using the H.264 codec;
    (3)Socket Progress Events (designed to build advanced file sharing programs, such as FTP clients that send huge amounts of data);
    (4)Cubic Bezier Curves support to create cubic Beziers;
    (5)Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support;       64 bit flash player Adobe: ubuntu 11.04
     

  • abhilash ab

    Features of  Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta 1:

    (1)G.711 audio compression for telephony (can be used to integrate telephony/voice into business applications using the G.711 codec;
    (2)H.264/AVC Software Encoding for webcams, to locally encode higher quality video using the H.264 codec;
    (3)Socket Progress Events (designed to build advanced file sharing programs, such as FTP clients that send huge amounts of data);
    (4)Cubic Bezier Curves support to create cubic Beziers;
    (5)Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support;       64 bit flash player Adobe: ubuntu 11.04
     

 
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