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Not too long ago (yesterday to be precise) I read that Adobe had finally gotten their ass in gear and released an alpha of a 64-bit version of the Flash-plugin for Linux. Excellent news! I thought the cows would come home before Adobe realized that 64-bit Linux users also enjoy YouTube.

Earlier today I downloaded and installed it. Installation is quite simple - remove the nswrapper and non-free flashplugin from your computer then drop the appropriate file in the proper place. Works like a charm, and a nice thing with Flash 10 is that finally the overlay issue seems to have been resolved in Linux.

Here’s some ludicrously simple instructions for getting this working under Intrepid. Oh, and if you’re not running 64-bit Linux, then you’ve just wasted your time reading this!

UPDATE: You might want to keep in mind that this is alpha-quality software. Alpha from Adobe, even. So it doesn’t quite work a hundred percent. For example, whenever I go to sites like Youtube or any place with Flash video, Firefox will start using unreasonable amounts of CPU. Watching a flash-video in Firefox on my computer uses a full core from my quad-core CPU. That’s quite a lot for just watching Youtube-fluff.

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