Adobe Flash Player 11

Cosimo · 4 Oct 2011 at 08:12

It's finally here with native 64-bit support:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html

Download:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

nightmare99 · 4 Oct 2011 at 09:23

Sooo as an IE user is it worth using the 64 bit version now, what else won't work?

Cosimo · 4 Oct 2011 at 09:55

nightmare99 said:
Sooo as an IE user is it worth using the 64 bit version now, what else won't work?

It all works.

nightmare99 · 4 Oct 2011 at 09:58

Also playing a 720p video in 64 bit IE seems to only use about 7% cpu time while in 32 bit it is between 12-15%

Is this fairly typical?

Think I will switch to 64 bit, I did use it before when my 32 bit IE was stuffed but always seemed to have problems with flash player square.

Destination · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:25

nightmare99 said:
Also playing a 720p video in 64 bit IE seems to only use about 7% cpu time while in 32 bit it is between 12-15%

Is this fairly typical?

Think I will switch to 64 bit, I did use it before when my 32 bit IE was stuffed but always seemed to have problems with flash player square.

Going to declare my ignorance, the video you refer to, the 720p stuff, playng in IE, is this played using flash, or just native?

Mr.Fantastic · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:43

need firefox 7 64bit now.

Deception · 4 Oct 2011 at 16:19

Mr.Fantastic said:
need firefox 7 64bit now.

Is it only Internet Explorer that has a seperate 64bit version? (I guess with the Flash Player 64bit, we may see different versions of all browsers!)

mrk · 4 Oct 2011 at 16:33

There are 64bit versions of FF out, they're just not updated as often.

We are not at a time where we need 64bit browsers though. There is no web application that benefits from a 64bit browser and there are still plug-ins that don't work properly on a 64bit browser.

Azuse05 · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:23

mrk said:
There are 64bit versions of FF out, they're just not updated as often.

We are not at a time where we need 64bit browsers though. There is no web application that benefits from a 64bit browser and there are still plug-ins that don't work properly on a 64bit browser.

FFx64 has had nightly builds since early summer with a final release sometime this year. X64 builds, like every other bit of software, are 10-15% faster same with flash/java.

mrk · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:34

Nightly isn't exactly release material though, that was my point.

nightmare99 · 4 Oct 2011 at 19:46

Going to declare my ignorance, the video you refer to, the 720p stuff, playng in IE, is this played using flash, or just native?

Haha I thought somebody might ask, yeah a flash video on youtube.

We are not at a time where we need 64bit browsers though.

IE10 is going to be 64 bit in Windows 8 x64 though is it not.

3dcandy · 5 Oct 2011 at 13:22

there have been x64 versions of IE for years...

mrk · 5 Oct 2011 at 13:28

And up until only recently have major plugins like Flash been updated to work on 64bit browsers so that point is quite irrelevant!

3dcandy · 5 Oct 2011 at 13:43

possibly, but my point is x64 has been available, on linux browsers are often 64-bit and there are few problems...compiling a plugin etc. for 64-bit is pretty simple these days is it not?