Preview of 64-bit version of Flash Player available

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Adobe Flash Player "Square"

Adobe? Flash? Player "Square" is a preview release that enables native 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems, as well as enhanced support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta.

We have made this preview available so that users can test existing content and new platforms for compatibility and stability. Because this is a preview version of Flash Player, we don?t expect it to be as stable as a final release version of Flash Player. Use caution when installing Flash Player "Square" on production machines.

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.

Important: Please note that if you install the Flash Player "Square" preview, you will need to keep this version up to date by manually installing updates from the Flash Player "Square" download page on Adobe Labs. You will not receive automatic update notifications for future final releases of Flash Player, and you will need to manually uninstall Flash Player "Square" before installing a final shipping version of Flash Player.

Source: labs.adobe.com

Download: Flash Player 'Square' preview (for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

[the better twin]

Finally....

[Boo Berry]

It's about time.

[SoLoR1]

Now sadly we cant make IE 64bit as default browser :( any workaround for this?

[strelok1911]

We really have to thank Microsoft for this as they've partenered with Adobe (most likely) to release this.

[manosdoc]

Now sadly we cant make IE 64bit as default browser :( any workaround for this?

Just pin the 64bit browser at Taskbar. Works the same.

And... try to use HTML5 video, rather Flash, now that IE9 is out, throwing away flash.

[Phenom II]

working fine here on IE9 x64

[SoLoR1]

Just pin the 64bit browser at Taskbar. Works the same.

And... try to use HTML5 video, rather Flash, now that IE9 is out, throwing away flash.

yes this will open x64 version however if you will click direct links for example inside mail, it will open 32bit IE :) and anyway ofc i enabled html5 in youtube now, but flash still will be needed for quiet a while :)

[sbrads]

Now I want more 64 bit capable Firefox plugins.

[Rudy]

Finally!! I'll try out the 64bit version of FF4 when I get home tonight :D

[torrentthief]

SWEET! only 7yrs too late, nevermind :p

Wonder how much improvement the 32bit builds will have on IE9 beta 1 and firefox 4 beta 6.

Finally!! I'll try out the 64bit version of FF4 when I get home tonight :D

there is only a 64bit version of firefox 4 beta 1, there probably won't be any more until the final build which will be released AFTER the 32bit version.

Now we just need 64bit silverlight, 64bit quicktime, 64bit chrome and we're good to go:)

[Steven P. Administrators]

YAY!

[ViperAFK]

Using it now on ie9 64 bit beta on youtube and seems to work fine. ABOUT TOME ADOBE.

[andrew_f]

Additional feature I just noticed: it seems to FINALLY allow full screen video on one monitor whilst working on another without closing.

[ViperAFK]

Additional feature I just noticed: it seems to FINALLY allow full screen video on one monitor whilst working on another without closing.

FINALLY!!! I got dual monitors recently and that had been ****ing me off so much!

EDIT: confirmed here, does work for me on youtube.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

excuse my language but ......

It's about DAMN time!!!!

[ViperAFK]

today is a good day

[Alladaskill17]

Cool. Flash works fine for my usage(s) here on OS X; any reason I need the 64bit preview or can just wait until this is a final release?

[ViperAFK]

No real reason unless you want to test it and/or really want to use a 64 bit browser. But 64 bit safari can use flash 32 bit on osx anyway. It seems to install fine side-by-side with 32 bit flash in windows.

[Hendrick]

We really have to thank Microsoft for this as they've partenered with Adobe (most likely) to release this.

How in the world did you get that? If that were truely the case, the OSX and Linux version would not be shipping today.

[Sky Black]

Additional feature I just noticed: it seems to FINALLY allow full screen video on one monitor whilst working on another without closing.

Loving this also!

[Tom Gru]

How is it actually faster? Or has all the 64 bit flash crying been all for nothing?

Is someone going to actually switch to 64-bit browsers because of this? Sure eventually but I don't see the rush.

[Inklin]

I know this is just a preview but for a preview it seems to be running perfectly in FF4b7pre x64 nightly and IE 9b x64 for me :)

and yes, it's way overdue

[Avi]

Did hell just freeze?

[Septimus]

At last, but a bit slow and ###### compared to the 32bit version. It will get there.

Now if only Admuncher supported 64bit.