How is your experience with the Adobe Flash 64 bit plugin?

I am running Debian Lenny x64 using Iceweasel(aka Firefox). I read an article about how good the alpha stage 64 bit Adobe Flash plugin is, so I decided to install it. I have had a TERRIBLE time with it. It renders some content perfectly like Youtube, but then when it hits some flash content on another page(the Lenovo forum on this site for example), BOOM, my whole browser just dies. No warnings or messages. This happens very often and on many sites. I know it is alpha and wouldn't mind the occasional crash, but it is too regular to use.

I am curious if any of you are using it and what have your experiences been with it. I am very surprised how bad it has gone for me.

 

It's not bad on Arch. Good on all flash except for this one website that shows chinese flash videos of tv series ( www.tudou.com)

Not sure if that's a flash problem or something else

 

I had it installed today on my dads laptop, everything seems to be fine. I"m sorry to hear your having such difficulties Fire Snake .

 

Seconded for flash working fine In Arch 64.
zephyrus17, I watched a couple video's from the link you posted, seems to work fine for me.

 

This stinks. Why does it crash for me so much? Don't know what to do with it. Any suggestions?

My only other options are to:

1.) Use nspluginwrapper with the 32 bit plugin. I am running into problems with this as well; can't get it to work. I have read that nspluginwrapper is not working properly in Debian currently? Is this correct? it was working fine with Ubuntu 8.10 x64.

2.) Install the 32 bit version of Firefox manually and install the 32 bit Adobe flash plugin with it.

I have tried gnash and swfflash(sp?) and neither worked with the stuff I am using(ex: Youtube).

 

Are you using flashplayer 9 or 10?

 

I am using 10

 

How did you install the plugin? Are you sure the old plugin isn't being picked up? Make sure your ABOUT LUGINS says this about flash:

Code:

[b]Shockwave Flash[/b]
    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22

I have the 64bit plugin from Adobe and have yet to have any problems from it, even on that Chinese site that zephyrus17 linked to, just some video flashing problems which I believe are related to my video driver and not Flash.

 

- I first downloaded the 64 bit plugin from adobe in a tar archive.
- I untared the archive and copied the plugin to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
- restarted the browser and already did the about lugins as you mentioned and the flash 10 plugin showed up. I never had a prior version installed, so no version conflicts to worry about.
- As I said it played youtube videos fine and I was real happy. Then I went to a few other sites that had flash content and then things went bad.

 

Any example sites I could test? What GPU do you have?

 

Mint x64 gnome (using at the moment) comes with it OTB...I haven't run into any problems.

 

No problems here also on FF 3.0.6, the first couple of video's on tudou.com also play well, including full screen.

 

It worked fine for me.

 

A sample site is this site in the Lenovo forum. At the very top is a flash ad. As soon as it plays, my browser dies.

This link for this flash file is -> this

 

centos 5.2 64b + 64b firefox 3.0.6 and no crash so far, running it for like 2 months

 

Works fine for me. I have it open in another tab right now. Even clicked on it, it took me to shop.lenovo.com. Had to tunnel home to get around the company's ad-blocking filters There's something else going on with your machine, it's not the fault of the Adobe plugin.

 

Hmm.. What could it be? I can reproduce this problem with out fail using the link I posted, so its not like an intermittent thing.

 

That is a very good question. Make sure all traces of the old flash plugin and nspluginwrapper are out of your system if they were ever there. Make sure you don't have gnash or any other flash alternative plugins installed, either.

 

Did you use apt-get purge?