For me, Flash support has been an achilles heel on my 64 bit install. I don’t want to use wrapper and work arounds. I also think that if I have a 64 bit processor, I should be using it. I found this little nugget which works very well for me. Flash drops out very rarely, previously it would work after 3 refreshes. I sincerely hope that the next Adobe Flash update provides proper support to us linux users. ...
I have my reservations about learning flash. It is proprietary, bloated, and doesn’t work very well on linux 64bit. However, there are a lot of rich web applications that need to be flash based. Youtube anyone? I landed on haxe. I was slightly turned off by the fact that haxe can compile to javascript, flash, or Neko (which I am not familiar with). However, what turned my on was that haxe compiled to swf is apparently faster than AS3 compiled swf’s. That argument is probably a good topic for another post, I will have to run some benchmarking. ...