At the Adobe Max conference, being held in San Francisco until 19 November, the company Adobe has unveiled an alpha version of its Flash Player running natively on a 64-bit processor. To everyone's surprise, the distributions of Linux running on a compatible system that will benefit from this change before Windows and Mac OS X.
To date, those who wish to benefit from Flash and have a machine with Windows Vista x64 can not enjoy a fully compatible browser. The 64-bit version of Internet Explorer is not supported and the same goes for the special version of Firefox. This should be emulated in 32 bits.
According to a spokesman for Adobe is really strong demand from users of open source reportedly reasoned that decision. The latter then adds: "in the future, we will emerge a native 64-bit Flash Player for Windows and Mac."
The plugin is available for download here.
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