title: Adobe murders flash 64-bit for Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/adobe-murders-flash-64-bit-for-linux/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 150 created: 2010/06/25 08:18:44 created_gmt: 2010/06/25 08:18:44 comment_status: open post_name: adobe-murders-flash-64-bit-for-linux status: publish post_type: post

Adobe murders flash 64-bit for Linux

As usual, The Register delivers the news in its own inimitable way.

Adobe euthanizes Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux: ‘Expects’ 64bitness later

On Thursday, the company took the beta tag off the 32-bit Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and it released a slew of security updates for versions 10.0.45.2 and earlier. But at the same time, it posted a statement to the Adobe Labs page announcing the end of the Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux beta.

That message, posted here, ends with this hopeful line:

We have temporarily closed the Labs program of Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux, as we are making significant architectural changes to the 64-bit Linux Flash Player and additional security enhancements.

Really? Read on.

Welcome to the Flash Player 10.1 Forum
Important: Do not use this forum to discuss the Flash Player 10 64-bit Linux prerelease or Flash Player 10 and earlier release players.
Follow these links to discuss these topics:

Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux forum [adobe.com]

Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux (Read Only)
Welcome to the Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Forum

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry… but it reminds me of reading The Trial :)

Like in a Kafka novel

As someone on the CNet forum said, it looks like we’re witnessing the corporate equivalent of a nervous breakdown over at Adobe (a “meltdown” is the way I think they put it).

Personally, I was feeling kind of sorry for Adobe coming out of the whole Steve Jobs flare-up. Now, not so much.

(Hmmm… let’s see, 4+ Gb of memory available to applications, including the browser, or flickering ads cluttering up my display? Oh yeah, that’s a real hard choice — I wonder if Adobe hired the same exec from Real that killed the 64-bit Player for Linux?)

Fortunately nspluginwrapper 1.3.0 is now stable enough to handle most Flash enabled sites using the 32-bit version, and so I’ve removed the last “alpha” of the 64-bit libflashplayer.so (10.0.45.2) from my machine and replaced it with the 32-bit version 10.1.53.64-release.

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