Adobe Flash Player en 64-bits, primera release

Después de muchas quejas, peticiones y suplicas. Adobe Systems finalmente ha lanzado el primer preview de Adobe Flash Player de 64-bits, de nombre clave “Square”. Así la nueva Build de este popular plug-in para navegadores web, da soporte nativo para 64-bit para plataformas Windows, Mac OS y Linux.

Según Adobe el rendimiento gráfico en Internet Explorer 9 es del 35% superior comparado con las versiones previas.

  The key new capabilities in the Flash Player “Square” preview are:
   # * 64-bit support — Native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web
       browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
   # * Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support — Enhanced support for
       Internet Explorer 9 Beta. It takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in
       Internet Explorer 9 Beta, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics
       performance and enable seamless composition.
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  # The following known issues exist in Flash Player “Square”:
  # * Video playback issues may appear on certain websites such as Hulu.com, Audi.co.uk,
      and nbc.com.
  # * Content protection using Adobe Flash Access is not currently supported on 64-bit
      platforms in this preview release.
  # * Mouse interactivity in the Settings UI dialog does not work using Internet
      Explorer 9. Keyboard navigation works as expected. Please pardon our dust.
  # * Internet Explorer 9 is not yet final. As such, Adobe is continuing to work with
      Microsoft to resolve critical issues before the final release of Internet
      Explorer 9.
  # * This release will not receive automatic update notifications, and users will need to
      manually uninstall this preview before installing a standard shipping release
      of Flash Player.

Si quieres probar Flash Player 64-bit puede descargarlo desde aquí. (Por cierto, requiere que el sistema operativo sea 64-bits).

Para instalarlo en Ubuntu, una vez descargado descomprímelo y el archivo "libflashplayer.so" copialo en la carpeta "/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin", si la carpeta no existe prueba en "/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer" o en "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". (La carpeta depeden de como se instalo Adobe Flash Player).