Flash 64bit on Linux
Well after many, many years of waiting, we finally have a 64-bit flash plugin on Linux. More staggering than the fact that it’s taken so long, is the fact that this is the first 64-bit version on _any_ platform.
Anyhow, the point of this post (other than to say thanks Adobe for _finally_ doing this - though really I’m not sure such a long wait deserves _any_ thanks) is to help anyone else who tries it.
Basically I installed it and then went to youtube to try it. Firefox hung for 10 seconds (no CPU used), each and every time. I then purged nspluginwrapper (I’d previously removed gnash and libswf). I also went and manually removed any flash or swf file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. That fixed the problem.
Posted: November 17th, 2008 under Linux.
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