(insert snarky comment about how it'll crash even faster now)<p>This is honestly a good thing, one thing that porting programs tends to do is help find bugs.<p>For example, one of OpenBSD's goals in supporting all the hardware it does is that bugs may crop up on a sparc or vax architecture that wouldn't be found if everyone was running on x86.<p>Hopefully, this will lead to a more stable version of flash.
I don't want to sound unappreciative, but _it's about time_.<p>I do notice they're using additional hardware acceleration in IE9 only. I wonder what the limitation is in NPAPI that prevents them from supporting other browsers. (And whether/when that limitation would be resolved.)
After they yanked the previous 64-bit player beta for Linux, I'm a little gun-shy now; I'm treating anything they release as "beta" as something they reserve the right to yank out from under me at a moment's notice now.<p>I'm actually hoping to see Lightspark develop into a reasonable alternative:<p><a href="http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/" rel="nofollow">http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/</a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark</a>
<a href="https://launchpad.net/lightspark/" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/lightspark/</a>
first of all let me just say ...<p>it's about goddamn time they got their act together. 64-bit machines have been common for how long now?<p>next let me say ...<p>I hope HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript bury Flash quickly ... in a nice shallow grave. With IE6 dying, all that's left to bury is Flash.