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I'm on amd64 and the other solution of installing the 32bit version of FireFox is a fine work around.
The KDE4 version of Konqueror can also happily use the 32bit plugin. Even so, Adobe does need to add 64bit support across all operating systems - even Windows users have started noticing that lack :-) I honestly can not fathom why it is so hard to compile a 64bit version of a plugin/application. Having to kill the browser about once an hour because of a plugin is a pain.
Hi Scott.
The Linux Player team made a very detailed post about 'why it is so hard' here http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/whats_so_difficult_64bit_editi.html Tom, thanks for the post you point us to. But it is 18 months old.
Nowadays, almost every new desktop processor sold is amd64 enabled. It might be hard but not *this* hard, and they will need to compile it for 64bits anyway in the future as 64bits is becoming the norm. So why not focus on it now ? Laurent - I agree !
I've got a 64bit desktop at work, a 64bit server at home and my next laptop will be 64bit too. the 32bit Player seems a lot more stable on those than it seems to be on your box, however. It would be VERY nice to have a 64-bit native Flash Player on Linux. NSPluginwrapper is very unstable and the free alternatives, while functional, aren't as good or complete as the "real thing".
My new laptop is a dual core machine with 4GB of RAM. In order to address it all, I *HAVE* to use 64-bit Linux. I believe the problem is the same on the Windows platform, though Microsoft has hidden the issue some in their latest Vista patches. Many folks using other Adobe products have very "big" machines with lots of processing power and memory. The new Photoshop will be available in a 64-bit version, providing performance gains and all the other benefits of the 64-bit platform. These people are likely going to use other products on these machines, one of which is almost certainly a web browser and the Adobe Flash Player. I understand this is not a trivial change, and I understand it is a change that cannot necessarily be made quickly. But I feel it is a "high" priority change to make and it should be addressed as quickly as possible. 64 bit is where the the rest of your product line, as well as the overall computing market, is heading. I install Linux thin client networks in nonprofits. Being able to use 64-bit machines would enable me to utilize the memory I have more effectively- and to be able to support more people, however not having a stable Flash solution on 64-bit is a real barrier to being to switch to 64-bit. Probably, the last remaining barrier we have.
I sincerely hope that a 64-bit version of the Flash plug-in is coming. You as the the Linux community can help to make this happen.
The missing piece to get to 64-bit support is fully open source (like any Mozilla project tri-licensed as MPL/GPL/LGPL), part of the Tamarin project: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ The source code repository is here: http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-central/ If you track the change lists you can see that the support for the Win64 ABI is being worked on. What is missing is support for the 64-bit Linux/BSD ABIs. As this project is fully open source this could be done by any knowledgeable person in the community. This would also help the Mozilla/Firefox project in general. Like Patrick Rady, I also install Linux thin clients. I have hundreds of users on large servers.
Applets can be run now on the openJDK which has a 64bit java plugin. The only piece missing is 64bit flash. I'm sure it's not just a compile away, but we've been waiting patiently for a long time. One more thing, the title of this issue should be "x86_64 support needed in Linux". AMD64 and Intel's Core 2 are both x86_64 capable. Chaps, we need this on Linux. Silverlight (via Moonlight) will end up being the replacement for developers on this platform if we don't see any movement.
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AMD64 support needed in Linux
The only way to resolve it is to restart Firefox.
This is *so* annoying that I switched from Flash to Gnash, a free implementation of the Flash Player. Gnash is not perfect as it can't play every swf out there, but it does not stop working after some time and I don't need to restart Firefox 10 times a day anymore.
We *need* a 64bits version (amd64) of the Flash Player on GNU/Linux.