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With just about every Adopey product under Warnings right now, who could possibly think of using one?
Adobe is offering a beta version of its Flash player which includes support for 64-bit chips and Internet Explorer 9. The beta, called Square, is not stable, the company warns in a blog post, and punters are urged to "use caution" in production environments. The app is available for Macs, Windows and Linux machines. While …
Downloading the streams and watching using a normal media player means you can use night-time data allowances if you have them, and lets me watch HD streams on computers that have trouble showing the SD streams in flash. Not that that stops me using flash for a bunch of other stuff mind, just means I get a better experience with iPlayer than would be possible from any of the supported viewing options
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"""punters are urged to "use caution" in production environments."""
If your 'production' relies on any version of Flash, I think you're already well past 'fucked' and well on your way towards something quite a lot worse.
But it can hardly be worse than the x64 Linux alpha, right, right? Who am I kidding...
On my 64-bit Linux system, the 64-bit Linux plugin works better than the official 32-bit release run with the nspluginwrapper shim (eg. video less jerky). I wish this time Adobe makes also an official 64-bit release for Linux, last time they pulled the 64-bit beta version and made the proper Linux release 32-bit only.
In my experience the previous 64-bit test version of Flash player on Linux was far stabler than the 32-bit version (in a 32-bit Linux or with nspluginwrapper), as long as you didn't try to enable hardware acceleration in Flash. Then it was a total dog.
I notice they talk about using Square with IE 9 Beta, but make no mention of using it with Firefox. I downloaded the latest Firefox 64 bit Minefield Beta, installed the 64 bit Java and the 64 bit Flash (Square) and it has been working like a charm. No crashes yet, and other than some Firefox add-ons that are not compatible, no other major issues.
Apart from my plugins all seem to work most of the time, using plugin compatibility reporter (they do break intermittently, but usually only until the next day's release).
That said, I never had any issues with the 64bit Alpha, beyond the high CPU usage which seems ot be common on all platforms with all versions of flash.