64bit Adobe Flash player released
Posted by insanity5902 | Filed Under: Linux, OS, Gentoo
I'm not lying, I promise. Adobe has announced an x86_64 version of their adobe flash player. I unistalled that latest 10.0 32bit version along with nspluginwrapper, and downloaded the v10 alpha. The install was a simple copying it into ~/.mozilla/pugins, and it works.
Two initial findings I have, are dropdown menus are now popping up in front of the flash banner, instead of behind. Which is amazingly great. And the second is cpu usage. So far, listening to pandora is quite a bit lower, probalby b/c it was going through nspluginwrapper, but I notice about 4 - 5% difference in CPU. Can't wait to check out more flash streams that I've noticed cause some high cpu load.
For links to download and a chance to read up a bit about the release, check out the SWF Penguin's blog (one of the developers for linux flash)
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