Adobe Releases Beta of 64-Bit Flash Player for Mac OS X
The community has been very vocal around the need for native 64-bit support and we've heard you loud and clear. Today we're also sharing a refresh of the Linux 64-bit version of Flash Player together with the first preview of both the 64-bit Windows and Mac versions. If you're using a 64-bit browser, I encourage you to install a 64-bit version of Flash Player and give it try.
Downloads of the various preview versions of Flash Player "Square" are available through Adobe Labs. Adobe has also put together an FAQ (PDF) discussing some of the details of the move to 64-bit support.Top Rated Comments
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22 months ago
Adobe's obviously not going to let Flash die with grace. Goin' out kickin' an' screamin'.
22 months ago
Took Macrumors long enough to post the bloody news - what has it been, a day since it has been released and Macrumors finally talks about something else besides i-devices and iOS.
Anyway, hopefully the 64bit plugin will result in the extra registers being used on x86-64 which will hopefully translate into higher performance. IIRC from what I understand the 64bit version is based on Flash 10.2 so hopefully we'll see further developers in a faster schedule when compared to how long it took for Flash 10.1 to come out.
Anyway, hopefully the 64bit plugin will result in the extra registers being used on x86-64 which will hopefully translate into higher performance. IIRC from what I understand the 64bit version is based on Flash 10.2 so hopefully we'll see further developers in a faster schedule when compared to how long it took for Flash 10.1 to come out.
22 months ago
Lets hope more web sites practice proper etiquette and offer a choice of flash or non-flash versions.
22 months ago
Using no official, methodical, or statistically accurate testing, it appears to improve performance by at least 10% in my particular case.
Watching a 720p YouTube video with whatever version of Flash I had before, my C2D 2.4 GHz was running all over between 40% and 60% (using a 9600M GT, 4 GB RAM).
After installing the 64b version, CPU usage remained between 30% and 40% for the same video at 720p.
Not bad at all.
Watching a 720p YouTube video with whatever version of Flash I had before, my C2D 2.4 GHz was running all over between 40% and 60% (using a 9600M GT, 4 GB RAM).
After installing the 64b version, CPU usage remained between 30% and 40% for the same video at 720p.
Not bad at all.
22 months ago
Finally after years adobe is actually stepping their game up on the Mac platform. Let's see how well it does...it may be too late
22 months ago
Adobe is an authoring company not a technology one! They should stick with that and make better authoring tools. Leave the technological aspects to Apple, MS, Oracle etc.
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