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FlashPlayer 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 Spam

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 on a computer until now used to work with Windows XP. I am now installing software and doing some tests about the usability of the team, especially since it is 64-bits.
After more than 4 years using 64-bit Linux distributions on production servers, I have no doubt that this is an excellent choice for this type of machine. However, for home computers whose primary use is to be used as desktop computer, do not quite decide whether it is better to opt for the strength of something amply proven, or if instead it is worthwhile to gain some performance but sometimes leads us to encounter difficulties of a bet-tester.
For those who want to try the latter, for some time Adobe provides 64-bit versions of its popular Flash player. Those who want to install the official Ubuntu repositories (version 8.10, 64 bits), will find that installing the 32 bit through ndiswrapper.

 can download and manually install 64-bit (just a few days ago, on February 24, 2009, published a new version: 10.0.22.87). 
 
 The process is so simple: 
 
 

$ cd / tmp $ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar
. gz $ tar-xzf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz $ sudo mv libflashplayer.so / usr / lib / firefox-addons / plugins

Then restart Firefox, and you we have both a browser and a flash player in 64 bits.

In the Adobe website, insist that this is an alpha version

, so it will be more or less frequent than the browser to crash when accessing certain pages flash. It should be clear that this is a tool for testing or for developers, but for end users who want a stable, for now the recommendation is to use the 32 bits.


Update (July-March-2009)
: It seems that users of 64-bit systems will still have to wait a bit to have a flash playback environment stable.

 After seeing the very unstable alpha version is provided by Adobe, I use the version of the Ubuntu repositories (32 bits + wrapper). This version generates sporadic errors like this: 
 
 
 
 npviewer.bin [5916]: segfault at ff9bea2c sp 00000000ff9bea2c ip error 4 
 

00000000ff8cecec

And in trying to get a little more information on Launchpad encentro me what is probably the most common error experienced
currently
Ubuntu (no more than to see the number of subscribers and duplicates .) Maybe it's time to thoroughly test swfdec and Gnash