Gnash cannot play YouTube movies

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just curious but Adobe has been discontinued for 64-bit? Aren't all
>>> CPUs 64-bit nowadays?
>>
>> I am just as surprised as you. Yes, it would seem that all CPUs are 64-bit and
>> also, the 64-bit flash was working just fine and I am still using it right now
>> in fedora 13/firefox-3.6.4-1.fc13.x86_64 without any ill effects that I have
>> been able to ascertain, despite daily use for months and months.
>
> From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash :
>
> «Adobe has discontinued the 64-bit linux alpha/beta program without
> patching exploits known to be in the wild. Use of any existing 64-bit
> versions should be considered dangerous.»

Fortunately, we have now Lightspark

https://launchpad.net/lightspark

but still to be supported on the Fedora repositories.

Paul