Comment 97 for bug 585940

I just installed the Maverick daily image in a 64bit virtualbox VM (on a 32 bit Maverick host) and went to youtube, from there I ended up at the adobe site which guided me to apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner as archive.canonical.com does not have adobe-flashplugin in the maverick partner repo this ended up failing with "adobe-flashplugin is virtual" which is clearly non-optimal, however this would be an equally big fail on 32 bit as it is on 64 bit. I will file a separate bug for that. I then installed flashplugin-installer which worked fine, restarted the browser and then youtube videos worked perfectly fine and smooth with perfect audio. Flash does work on 64bit. I am unaware of any issues with it that don't also occur in 32 bit. I don't think conversations about historic issues with drivers and flash on 64bit have any relevance to this bug. What we need to do is check in 10.10 and find all the third party applications we can think of that might have an issue and test them and see if we can find anything which breaks in 64 bit which is less broken in 32 bit.
I then went to bbc.co.uk and checked the streaming flash iPlayer, which worked fine, then installed the iPlayer desktop client which is an adobe air application. It went through the install process and seems to run just fine, playing live TV worked, downloading programmes worked.
I then went to skype.com and downloaded the 64 bit client for Ubuntu 8.10+, the .deb file opened in Software Centre and installed fine. A test call worked fine, although the microphone didn't seem to be active in the virtual machine - can't see that having anything to do with 64 bit.