Adobe previews 64-bit Flash
Adobe's Flash Player now comes in a 64-bit flavour, dubbed 'Square,' for all operating systems.
Unlike the previous release, which was limited to Linux platforms, the new Flash Player supports 64-bit browsers on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, replacing the original Linux-only version with one that Adobe's Paul Betlam claims should be "even faster and more reliable."
The new Flash Player, dubbed "Square," is also designed to take advantage of the GPU offload capabilities built into the recently released Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Betlam claims that by using the GPU, testing of Square has revealed "significant improvements in Flash Player graphics performance - exceeding 35 per cent in Internet Explorer 9 Beta compared to Flash Player running in previous versions of IE."
While Betlam states that the version of Square currently up for download should be pretty stable and is ready for broad testing, he warns that "this a sneak peak and not everything will be fully baked." Users that encounter issues are encouraged to submit a bug report to Adobe's public database for investigation.
All Square versions are available for download now from Adobe's Labs site.
Will you be trying out the new, shiny, 64-bit enabled Flash, or has Adobe already lost you to the new world of HTML 5 - or even Microsoft's rival Silverlight? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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You name, i've had it....from 'driver stopped responding' to total PC Hard locks, which needed a total power down to get back in....
How did such a buggy piece of crap become the internet standard that it did?......
I have very little time for Steve Jobs and Apple, but for me, his views on Flash and non inclusion on Apple hardware are bang on the money.
exactly!
Though I'm going to wait until The Final
CountdownVersion.I am using it for two days now and I have any problems so far. But I have not noticed any difference. But I am not a hardcore flash user.
Damn... Already installed it... :(
Go OSX if you can't be bothered...
And do you know the difference between a Beta and an official release?.......a name.
Since when they give 2 crap about Flash?
I guess finally having serious competition (HTML5 and Silverlight) woke them up.
:(
I have a question though, now that I have flash on 64-bit IE9, does anyone knoe a way to make windows 7 allow it to be the default browser? (Windows doesn't let 64-bit IE9 to be the default browser, only the 32-bit one.)
Damnit, bwin! Get your stuff together and start programming/designing internal apps for proper browsers!
Then again... Sharepoint will never really support FF, will it? ;)
First thing I did was go on Youtube in Namoroka (Firefox 64-bit) and watch a video. The video played fine, but then at the end the browser crashed....
Still needs ironing out.
And to anyone running one of the unofficial builds of it - do the regular plugins still work?
Only one that didn't work for me was Echofon... and I have a lot of plugins.
A web browser in 64-bit by itself, doesn't need the performance, let alone a 32-bit web browser doesn't provide any benefit over 16-bit web browser, seeing simple web pages.
With the awake of the CPU and GPU intensive HTML5, and as well complex Flash applications and HD videos (in Flash) and complex Java applications which are all CPU intensive, going 64-bit will provide (as son as it's optimized) better security, and much better performance.
Play a HD video in a window in Flash, or some complex Flash animation, look how one of your processors usage sky rocket. Going 64-bit will/should significantly reduce that (this also means gaining battery life in comparison to the 32-bit on laptops).
I don't expect ground breaking performance on this first 64-bit version of Flash... time will provide better optimization and performance. But at least it opens that door.
here's the nightly builds for firefox if you want to try it out..
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
ie had 64 bit forever- might try the firefox plugin on the atom to see if it can do 720p
Thank you! ;)
I thought it could be a challenging question!
64 bit flash is like 4 years late and a field day for exploits and viruses.
I'm no Apple fan but Steve Jobs is right, Adobe SUCKS!
I'll take HTML 5 Silverlight or someting outta a vending machine with mold growing on it over Adobe.
What if Adobe decides to make it PC-exclusive just to piss of Mr Jobs?
I know this won't probably ever happen because it'd hurt their sales so badly but what would happen to Mac sales?
Yup it will. I had a SharePoint 2010 course at work not that long ago - we were told that it has been designed with IE, FF and Chrome all in mind - the demonstration seemed to back this up as well.
Microsoft are getting better at this new fangled multi browser support thing.
Yep... great stuff.
After that time Namoroka crashes... every time!
And, no, I do not want to upgrade to FF 4 x64 nightly build as yet (as most of the extensions do not work in v4 yet)
Shockwave Flash 10.2.d161
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I'll re-install tonight or tomorrow morning though.
I am not interested (as I said) in firefox-4.0b8pre as most add-ons/extensions that I use do NOT work in 4.0
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