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64-bit Flash Player For Linux - Why?

As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it's still alpha).When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask myself "Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?". I don't think there is a single Flash application out there that has reached the constraints of a 32-bit environment and I doubt a single Flash developer has wished he had a full 64-bit address space, nor do I think they ever will.What's more, Firefox, in which you're likely to be running the Flash player is only 64-bit if you compile it yourself. Why do you need a 64-bit version of Firefox anyway? Are there plans for it to gobble up even more memory than it used to?Anyway, I headed over to the Adobe Flash Player 10 labs site to see what this was all about, and then I found my answer, I think:  Continue reading ►

Local Shared Object: Flash Cookies You Didn't Know About

I stumbled upon the concept of "Local Shared Objects" for the first time today after reading about the Objection extension for Firefox.For those who have also not heard of "Local Shared Objects" or LSOs for short, Wikipedia define them as:A Local Shared Object (LSO) is a collection of cookie-like data stored as a file on a user's PC. LSOs are used by all versions of Adobe Flash Player and those subsequent to Version 5 of Macromedia's now-obsolete Flash MX PlayerWell, sounds reasonable enough as I've had to use cookies to my advantage before, so why shouldn't Flash developers have the same functionality? I mean, the user can always reject the cookie if they want, like normal cookies, right?Well, actually NO.  Continue reading ►

Adobe Flash 9 For Solaris

Adobe have finally remembered that there is another OS other than Windows, Linux and OS X that people may use to, oh I don't know, do anything those other OSes do, like browsing the internet - they've finally released Flash 9 for Solaris (go get it). Woohooo!!! Now all we need is for them to remember that we like to read PDF's on Solaris x86 and could do with a nice upgrade so we don't have to continue using Acrobat Reader 4 or the tools supplied as part of Gnome.
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