As a 64-bit Linux Freetard who occasionally watches stuff in Flash, I'm glad. Now, if Sun would release a 64 bit JNLP (Java Web Start) proggie for 64bit Linux, we'd be doing well.

It's been a long time coming, too long really, but this is still out of the blue. I thought it would be at least another six months. I think I'll give this a try.

It's unclear whether you were saying that you needed a 32-bit browser until now. That's not been true for a while. Firefox uses something called nspluginwrapper and it didn't take long for Opera to support it because it always ran its plugins through a wrapper anyway.

Would be great if they could offer wmode transparency next...

I've just moved away from 64bit ubuntu back to 32bit because of the flakyness of the 32bit emulation crashing firefox every 5 minutes..

It's about time for El Reg to either retire the overused and misused 'freetard' -- or only use it where it actually means something (e.g. the 60% of the net community convinced that they should be able to download their music for free). The growing Linux market share has little or nothing to do with the purchase price of the OS.

Commerical Linux support everywhere is increasing , this is just another example.

Linux , no longer last in the queue. Its now at the front.

"to satisfy the needs of freetards everywhere"

Surely that would require them posting the source?

That would be the same commitment that left us 64bit users out in the cold for entire versions of flash player for linux.

Perhaps they should get themselves a dictionary and select a more appropriate word such as "acknowledgment" or "apology to .. [for ignoring you so long]".

Dear Adobe,

Where's the fukken' source?

luv,

the freetards

took them long enough

and I never had any problems with fullscreen flash in SuSE

just what I dont need - another pointless development.

I hope my FlashBlocker still works on it.

If people want me to watch pointless presentations and unfunny adverts please save us all a lot of time and money and computer resources and use open standards please.

Well, you see... Everybody keeps yelling at them: "Eff off, retard!" for obvious reasons, and they didn't catch that the F isn't part of the Retard bit. That's the danger in using other people's insults.

I second that. Freetards are music priates. Linux users just want a stable OS.

Flash 10 player for Linux runs fullscreen fine. I know Flash 9 player was hit and miss (depending on the version you got). As a professional Flash developer and happy happy freetard at the same time, it's nice to be able to get what I create in my Windows dev environment running on my Eee.

is for firefox to adopt chrome's one-process-per-tab model so that when flash crashes it doesn't take the entire browser down...

Yeah - 64bitGentootard here.

it works as advertised so far. No comment on stability 'till the kidlets hammer on it later this week.

Now, did someone mention ShockWave?

Can someone explain to me why on earth this is such a big deal? Pretty much everything else I want is there already for 64bit Linux.

Forgive my ignorance, but don't you just, well, er, compile it on a 64 bit machine? I'm prepared to believe there could be a bit more to it than that, but for a product as important and well funded as Flash, this has to be 99% about market manipulation. and 1% technology... - doesn't it??

You need an "I don't get it" icon. I guess PH will do for now.

i third that (if possible, that is).

what's the point on making an insult out of people who don't or can't pay for something? and further more why would you want to call linux users something in the lines of "retard"?

do windows users have a cute nickname too? or are they OK because they pay (I'm sure most of them don't) ?