Re: Flash in 64-bit environment
Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:52:15 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:41:45 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>>> I have recently installed Squeeze AMD-64 on my new Phenom box.
>>>> Generally very pleased with it, but am having trouble with some Flash
>>>> files.
>>> (...)
>>>> Any suggestions as to what to do, please?
>>> Yes, you can install Adobe Flash player plugin from either Debian's
>>> non- free repo or Adobe's site.
>>>
>>> Caveat: 64-bits Adobe Flash is plenty of security bugs :-/
>> And it also is quite buggy on much flash content (e.g. audio stuttering
>> problem). I ended up installing the 32 bit version and it seems to be
>> the less-awful one (as much as flash can be non-alwful).
> Well, it seems that Adobe listened to my complain and today has announced
> a new beta version (11.0.1.60) for both 32 and 64 bits. Wow... Still a
> bad plugin but at least with less bugs and it seems to do not crash when
> I maximize the player window.
>>> P.S. The above link with the chart renders fine here (running lenny
>>> +firefox5+adobe flash player, 64-bits-plugin-plenty-of-security-bugs)
>>>
>>> P.S. 2 Adobe, wake-up... again!
>> I should also say... web developer industry/community and start using
>> HTML5!
> I, as a web developer, don't have any hurry in implementing html5. It
> first need to be released and fully approved! :-)
Ok but that will probably be something like around 2020 for the official
standard and by then flash 11.0.10 will still be as buggy as ever :-)
But seriously there are some things still done in Flash like audio/video
playback which seem to work pretty well with html5.
Ciao.
Lorenzo.
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